Optical image capturing system

ABSTRACT

An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens. The first lens has a refractive power and the object side thereof may be convex. The second lens and the third lens have refractive power. The object side and the image side of the foregoing lenses may be aspheric. The fourth lens may have positive refractive power. The object side and the image side thereof are aspheric. At least one of surfaces of the fourth lens may have one inflection point. The four lenses have refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority from Taiwan Patent Application No.107114798, filed on May 1, 2018, in the Taiwan Intellectual PropertyOffice, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference in itsentirety for all purposes.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to the optical image capturing system, andmore particularly is about the compact optical image capturing systemapplied to electronic products.

2. Description of the Related Art

In recent years, with the rise of portable electronic devices havingcamera functionalities, the demand for an optical image capturing systemhas gradually been raised. The image-sensing device of the ordinaryphotographing camera is commonly selected from charge coupled device(CCD) or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor sensor (CMOS Sensor).In addition, as advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology enablesthe minimization of the pixel size of the image-sensing device, thedevelopment of the optical image capturing system has gravitated towardsthe field of high pixels. Therefore, the requirement for high imagingquality has been rapidly increasing.

Conventional optical image capturing systems of portable electronicdevices usually adopt a two lenses structure or three lenses structureas their main structure. However, since the pixel density of portableelectronic devices has continuously increased, more end-users aredemanding a large aperture for such as functionalities as glimmer andnight view, or for a wide angle of view such as for selfies using thefront camera. However, the optical image capturing system with the largeaperture often encounters the dilemma of plentiful aberration, whichresults in the deterioration of peripheral image quality anddifficulties about manufacturing, and the optical image capturing systemwith wide angle of view design encounters the dilemma of increaseddistortion rate in image formation. Conventional optical image capturingsystems may not be sufficient to meet those advanced photographyrequirements.

Therefore, how to design an optical image capturing system capable ofbalancing the requirements for higher total pixel and higher imagequality as well as the minimization of optical lenses by effectivelyincreasing the amount of admitted light and the angle of view theoptical image capturing system has become an important issue.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The aspect of embodiment of the present invention directs to an opticalimage capturing system which is able to use combination of refractivepower, convex and concave surfaces of four optical lenses (the convex orconcave surface in the invention is the geometrical shape of an objectside or an image side of each lens on an optical axis in principle) andthe mechanism elements with small thickness is used for positioning thelenses. Further, the quantity of incoming light of the optical imagecapturing system is effectively enhanced and thus the angle of view ofthe optical image capturing system is increased. Simultaneously, theoptical image capturing system has a specific relative illuminance andthe total pixels and the image quality increases to apply tominiaturization or to the narrow borders of an electronic product.

The terms and the numerals pertaining to the mechanism elementsparameters in the embodiment of the present invention are shown as belowfor further reference.

The optical image capturing system may include an image-sensing module,and the image-sensing module includes a substrate and a photosensitiveelement disposed on the substrate. The optical image capturing systemmay include a first positioning element denoted by PE1 (positioningelement 1) and comprises a base and a holder. The base has an openaccommodation space disposed on the substrate and used to accommodatethe photosensitive element. The holder is in a hollow shape and opaque.Optionally, the holder can be formed integrally. The holder has acylinder and a basement connected with each other. The cylinder has apredetermined thickness. The holder has a first through hole and asecond through hole, which are formed on the two opposite ends,respectively. The first through hole is connected with the cylinder, andthe second through hole is connected with the basement. A maximum valueof the minimum side length of the basement perpendicular to the opticalaxis is denoted by PhiD. A maximum diameter of the inner hole of thesecond through holes is denoted by Phi2.

The optical image capturing system of the present invention further mayinclude a second positioning element denoted by Positioning Element 2.The second positioning element is disposed in the holder of the firstpositioning element, and comprises a positioning part and a connectingpart. The positioning part is in a hollow shape and has a third throughhole and a fourth through hole, which are formed on the two oppositeends of the optical axis. The third through hole is connected with thepositioning part, and the fourth through hole is connected with thebasement and has a predetermined thickness. The positioning partdirectly contacts with any one of the lenses in the embodiment of thepresent invention and generates the positioning effect of accommodatingthe lens and arranging the lens on the optical axis. The connecting partis disposed outside the positioning part and can directly combine withthe cylinder so that the second positioning element is disposed in theholder of the first positioning element, and the optical image capturingsystem has function of adjusting and positioning the focal length inoptical axis direction. The maximum outer diameter of the plane of theconnection part perpendicular to the optical axis is denoted by PhiC.The maximum diameter of the inner hole of the fourth through hole isdenoted by Phi4. The foregoing connecting part 724 may possess thethread and make the second positioning element 720 be engaged with theholder 714 of the first positioning element 710.

Any of lenses of the embodiment of the present invention can be directlydisposed in the cylinder of the first positioning element, and be closerto the first through hole than the photosensitive element, and face thephotosensitive element. Otherwise, any of lenses of the embodiment ofthe present invention can be selectively disposed indirectly in thefirst positioning element by means of the second positioning element,and is closer to the third through hole than the photosensitive element,and face photosensitive element.

The term and the definition to the lens parameter in the embodiment ofthe present invention are shown as below for further reference.

The Lens Parameters Related to the Length or the Height

The maximum height for image formation of the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by HOI. The height of the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by HOS. The distance from the object side of the firstlens to the image side of the fourth lens is denoted by InTL. Thedistance from the image side of the fourth lens to the image plane isdenoted by InB and InTL+InB=HOS. The distance from an aperture to animage plane is denoted by InS. The distance from the first lens to thesecond lens is denoted by In12 (instance). The central thickness of thefirst lens of the optical image capturing system on the optical axis isdenoted by TP1 (instance).

The Lens Parameters Related to the Material

The coefficient of dispersion of the first lens in the optical imagecapturing system is denoted by NA1 (instance). The refractive index ofthe first lens is denoted by Nd1 (instance).

The Lens Parameters Related to the Angle of View

The angle of view is denoted by AF. Half of the angle of view is denotedby HAF. The major light angle is denoted by MRA.

The Lens Parameter Related to the Exit/Entrance Pupil

The entrance pupil diameter of the optical image capturing system isdenoted by HEP. The exit pupil of the optical image capturing systemmeans that the ray at the aperture passes through the lens set which ison the rear side of the aperture and forms an image on the first imageplane. The exit pupil diameter of the optical image capturing system isdenoted by HXP. For any surface of any lenses, the maximum effectivehalf diameter (EHD) is a perpendicular distance between an optical axisand an intersection point on the surface where the incident light with amaximum angle of view of the system passing the margin of the entrancepupil. For example, the maximum effective half diameter of the objectside of the first lens is denoted by EHD11. The maximum effective halfdiameter of the image side of the first lens is denoted by EHD12. Themaximum effective half diameter of the object side of the second lens isdenoted by EHD21. The maximum effective half diameter of the image sideof the second lens is denoted by EHD22. The maximum effective halfdiameter position of any surfaces of the remaining lenses of the opticalimage capturing system can be referred as mentioned above. The maximumeffective diameter of the image side which is the nearest to the imageplane of the optical image capturing system is denoted by PhiA, and therelationship is satisfied: PhiA=double EHD. If the surface is aspheric,the cut-off point of the maximum effective diameter namely includes thecut-off point of the aspherical surface. An ineffective half diameter(IHD) position of any surface of single lens refers to the surficialsection of the cut-off point (if it is an aspheric surface, a point endof the aspheric coefficient is on the surface) of the maximum effectivediameter extending to the same surface in the direction of faring awayfrom the optical axis. The maximum diameter of the image side of thelens which is the nearest to the image plane of the optical imagecapturing system is denoted by PhiB, and the relationship is satisfied:PhiB=a double (a maximum EHD+a maximum IHD)=PhiA+a double (a maximumIHD).

In the optical image capturing system of the present invention, themaximum effective diameter of the image side on the lens that is theclosest to the image plane (i.e. image space) is the optical exit pupil.The maximum effective diameter is denoted by PhiA. For instance, whenthe optical exit pupil is on the image side of the third lens, themaximum effective diameter is denoted by PhiA3. When the optical exitpupil is on the image side of the fourth lens, the maximum effectivediameter is denoted by PhiA4. If the optical image capturing system hasdifferent number of lenses with refractive power, the maximum effectivediameter (optical exit pupil) can be referred as mentioned above. Thepupil magnification ratio of the optical image capturing system isdenoted by PMR, and the following condition is satisfied: PMR=PhiA/HEP.

The Lens Parameters Related to an Arc Length of the Lens Shape and anOutline of Surface

The length of the maximum effective half diameter outline curve at anysurface of a single lens refers to an arc length of a curve, whichstarts from a starting point which is an intersection point on thesurface of the lens crossing the optical axis of the optical imagecapturing system, travels along the outline of the surface and ends atthe final point which is the maximum effective half diameter position ofthe surface, and this arc length is denoted by ARS. For example, thelength of the outline curve of the maximum effective half diameterposition of the object side of the first lens is denoted by ARS11. Thelength of the outline curve of the maximum effective half diameterposition of the image side of the first lens is denoted by ARS12. Thelength of the outline curve of the maximum effective half diameterposition of the object side of the second lens is denoted by ARS21. Thelength of the outline curve of the maximum effective half diameterposition of the image side of the second lens is denoted by ARS22. Thelengths of the outline curves of the maximum effective half diameterposition of any surface of the other lenses in the optical imagecapturing system are denoted in a similar way.

The length of ½ entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of anysurface of a single lens refers to an arc length of curve, which startsfrom a starting point which is an intersection point on the surface ofthe lens crossing the optical axis, travels along the outline of thesurface of the lens and ends at a coordinate point on the surface wherethe vertical height from the optical axis to the surface is equivalentto ½ entrance pupil diameter; and the arc length is denoted by ARE. Forexample, the length of the ½ entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curveof the object side of the first lens is denoted by ARE11. The length ofthe ½ entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the image side ofthe first lens is denoted by ARE12. The length of the ½ entrance pupildiameter (HEP) outline curve of the object side of the second lens isdenoted by ARE21. The length of the ½ entrance pupil diameter (HEP)outline curve of the image side of the second lens is denoted by ARE22.The lengths of the ½ entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of anysurfaces of the other lens in the optical image capturing system areexpressed in the similar way.

The Lens Parameters Related to the Surface Depth of the Lens

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis, which is measuredfrom the intersection point where the object side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis to the terminal point of the maximum effectivehalf diameter on the object side of the fourth lens, is denoted byInRS41 (instance). The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis,which is measured from the intersection point where the image side ofthe fourth lens crosses the optical axis to the terminal point of themaximum effective half diameter on the image side of the fourth lens, isdenoted by InRS42 (instance).

The Lens Parameter Related to the Shape of the Lens

The critical point C is a point, which is tangential to the tangentialplane and perpendicular to the optical axis on the specific surface ofthe lens except that an intersection point which crosses the opticalaxis on the specific surface of the lens. In addition to the descriptionabove, the perpendicular distance between the critical point C31 on theobject side of the third lens and the optical axis is denoted by HVT31(instance). The perpendicular distance between a critical point C32 onthe image side of the third lens and the optical axis is denoted byHVT32 (instance). The perpendicular distance between the critical pointC41 on the object side of the fourth lens and the optical axis isdenoted by HVT41 (example). The perpendicular distance between acritical point C42 on the image side of the fourth lens and the opticalaxis is denoted by HVT42 (instance). The perpendicular distances betweenthe critical point on the object side or the image side of other lensesand the optical axis are denoted in a similar way.

The object side of the fourth lens has one inflection point IF411 whichis the first nearest to the optical axis, and the sinkage value of theinflection point IF411 is denoted by SGI411 (instance). The horizontaldistance parallel to the optical axis from an inflection point on theobject side of the fourth lens that is the first nearest to the opticalaxis to the intersection point where the object side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI411. The distanceperpendicular to the optical axis between the inflection point IF411 andthe optical axis is HIF411 (instance). The image side of the fourth lenshas one inflection point IF421 which is the first nearest to the opticalaxis, and the sinkage value of the inflection point IF421 is denoted bySGI421 (instance). The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axisfrom an inflection point on the image side of the fourth lens that isthe first nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point wherethe image side of the fourth lens crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI421. The distance perpendicular to the optical axis between theinflection point IF421 and the optical axis is HIF421 (instance).

The object side of the fourth lens has one inflection point IF412 whichis the second nearest to the optical axis, and the sinkage value of theinflection point IF412 is denoted by SGI412 (instance). The horizontaldistance parallel to the optical axis from an inflection point on theobject side of the fourth lens that is the second nearest to the opticalaxis to the intersection point where the object side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI412. The distanceperpendicular to the optical axis between the inflection point IF412 andthe optical axis is denoted by HIF412 (instance). The image side of thefourth lens has one inflection point IF422 which is the second nearestto the optical axis, and the sinkage value of the inflection point IF422is denoted by SGI422 (instance). The horizontal distance parallel to theoptical axis from an inflection point on the image side of the fourthlens that is the second nearest to the optical axis to the intersectionpoint where the image side of the fourth lens crosses the optical axisis denoted by SGI422. The distance perpendicular to the optical axisbetween the inflection point IF422 and the optical axis is HIF422(instance).

The object side of the fourth lens has one inflection point IF413 whichis the third nearest to the optical axis, and the sinkage value of theinflection point IF413 is denoted by SGI413 (instance). The horizontaldistance parallel to the optical axis from an inflection point on theobject side of the fourth lens that is the third nearest to the opticalaxis to the intersection point where the object side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI413. The distanceperpendicular to the optical axis between the inflection point IF413 andthe optical axis is HIF413 (instance). The image side of the fourth lenshas one inflection point IF423 which is the third nearest to the opticalaxis, and the sinkage value of the inflection point IF423 is denoted bySGI423 (instance). The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axisfrom an inflection point on the image side of the fourth lens that isthe third nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point wherethe image side of the fourth lens crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI423. The distance perpendicular to the optical axis between theinflection point IF423 and the optical axis is HIF423 (instance).

The object side of the fourth lens has one inflection point IF414 whichis the fourth nearest to the optical axis, and the sinkage value of theinflection point IF414 is denoted by SGI414 (instance). The horizontaldistance parallel to the optical axis from an inflection point on theobject side of the fourth lens that is the fourth nearest to the opticalaxis to the intersection point where the object side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI414. The distanceperpendicular to the optical axis between the inflection point IF414 andthe optical axis is HIF414 (instance). The image side of the fourth lenshas one inflection point IF424 which is the fourth nearest to theoptical axis, and the sinkage value of the inflection point IF424 isdenoted by SGI424 (instance). The horizontal distance parallel to theoptical axis from an inflection point on the image side of the fourthlens that is the fourth nearest to the optical axis to the intersectionpoint where the image side of the fourth lens crosses the optical axisis denoted by SGI424. The distance perpendicular to the optical axisbetween the inflection point IF424 and the optical axis is HIF424(instance).

The inflection point, the distance perpendicular to the optical axisbetween the inflection point and the optical axis, and the sinkage valuethereof on the object side or image side of other lenses are denoted ina similar way as described above.

The Lens Parameters Related to an Aberration

Optical distortion for image formation in the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by ODT. TV distortion for image formation in theoptical image capturing system is denoted by TDT. Further, the range ofthe aberration offset for the view of image formation may be limited to50%-100% field. The offset of the spherical aberration is denoted byDFS. The offset of the coma aberration is denoted by DFC.

The transverse aberration of the margin of the aperture is denoted bySTA and evaluates the performance of the specific optical imagecapturing system. The transverse aberration at any field of view may becalculated by utilizing the tangential fan and the sagittal fan.Specifically, the transverse aberration at the longest operationwavelength (for instance, the wavelength is 650 nm) and the shortestoperation wavelength (for instance, the wavelength is 470 nm)respectively passing through the margin of the aperture is calculated toact as the standard of the performance. The aforementioned coordinatedirection of the tangential fan can be further divided into the positivedirection (the upper ray) and the negative direction (the lower ray).The transverse aberration at the longest operation wavelength passingthrough the margin of the aperture defines the difference between theimage position at the specific field of view where the longest operationwavelength passes through the margin of the aperture and strikes on theimage plane and the image position at the specific field of view wherethe chief ray of the reference wavelength (for instance, the wavelengthis 555 nm) strikes on the image plane. The transverse aberration at theshortest operation wavelength passing through the margin of the aperturedefines the difference between the image position at the specific fieldof view where the shortest operation wavelength passes through themargin of the aperture and strikes on the image plane and the imageposition at the specific field of view where the chief ray of thereference wavelength (for instance, the wavelength is 555 nm) strikes onthe image plane. To evaluate the performance of the specific opticalimage capturing system, we can utilize that the transverse aberration atthe 0.7 field of view (i.e., the 0.7 height of an image HOI) where thelongest operation wavelength passes through the margin of the apertureand strikes on the image plane and the transverse aberration at the 0.7field of view (i.e., the 0.7 height of an image HOI) where the shortestoperation wavelength passes through the margin of the aperture andstrikes on the image plane (i.e., the 0.7 height of an image HOI) bothare less than 50 μm as a way of the examination. Even further, the wayof the examination can be that the transverse aberration at the 0.7field of view where the longest operation wavelength passes through themargin of the aperture and strikes on the image plane and the transverseaberration at the 0.7 field of view where the shortest operationwavelength passes through the margin of the aperture and strikes on theimage plane are both less than 30 μm.

The maximum height for image formation perpendicular to the optical axison the image plane is denoted by HOI. The transverse aberration of thevisible light with the longest operation wavelength from the positivetangential fan, which passes through a margin of the entrance pupil andstrikes at the position of 0.7 HOI on the image plane, is denoted byPLTA. The transverse aberration of the visible light with the shortestoperation wavelength from the positive tangential fan, which passesthrough the margin of the entrance pupil and strikes at the position of0.7 HOI on the image plane, is denoted by PSTA. The transverseaberration of the visible light with the longest operation wavelengthfrom negative tangential fan, which passes through the margin of theentrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 HOI on the imageplane, is denoted by NLTA The transverse aberration of the visible lightwith the shortest operation wavelength from a negative tangential fan,which passes through the margin of the entrance pupil and strikes at theposition of 0.7 HOI on the image plane, is denoted by NSTA. Thetransverse aberration of the visible light with the longest operationwavelength from a sagittal fan, which passes through the margin of theentrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 HOI on the imageplane, is denoted by SLTA. The transverse aberration of the visiblelight with the shortest operation wavelength from the sagittal fan,which passes through the margin of the entrance pupil and strikes at theposition of 0.7 HOI on the image plane, is denoted by SSTA.

The present invention provides an optical image capturing system, and afourth lens of optical image capturing system is provided with aninflection point on the object side or on the image side to adjust theincident angle of each view field and modify the optical distortion andthe TV distortion. In addition, the surfaces of the fourth lens arecapable of modifying the optical path to improve the imaging quality.

The present invention provides an optical image capturing system, inorder along an optical axis from an object side to an image side,includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, andan image plane. The first lens has refractive power. The object side andan image side of the fourth lens are both aspheric. f1, f2, f3 and f4are focal lengths of the first lens to the fourth lens. f is the focallength of the optical image capturing system. HEP is the entrance pupildiameter of the optical image capturing system. A distance HOS is thedistance from object side of the first lens to the image plane. Adistance InTL is the distance on the optical axis from object side ofthe first lens to image side of the fourth lens. PhiA4 is the maximumeffective diameter of the image side of the fourth lens. The length ofthe outline curve of a half of an pupil diameter (HEP) of any surface ofa signal lens refers to the length of the outline curve of the half ofthe entrance pupil diameter (HEP) from an axial point on the surface ofthe lens to a coordinate point of perpendicular height with a distanceof the half of the entrance pupil diameter from the optical axis on thesurface along the outline of the surface of the lens and is denoted byARE. The following conditions are satisfied: 1.2≤f/HEP≤10; 0.5≤HOS/f≤20;0<PhiA4/InTL≤1.3; and 0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0.

The present invention provides an optical image capturing system, inorder along an optical axis from an object side to an image side,includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, animage plane and a first positioning element. The first positioningelement comprises a holder. The holder is in a hollow shape and opaque.The holder comprises a cylinder and a basement connected with eachother. The cylinder is configured to accommodate the first lens to thefourth lens. The basement is between the fourth lens and the imageplane. An outer periphery of the basement is greater than an outerperiphery of the cylinder, the maximum value of the minimum side lengthof the basement perpendicular to the optical axis denoted by PhiD. Thefirst lens has refractive power. The object side of the first lensadjacent to the optical axis is convex. The second lens has refractivepower. The third lens has refractive power. The fourth lens hasrefractive power. At least one lens among the first lens to the fourthlenses has positive refractive power. f1, f2, f3 and f4 are focallengths of the first lens to the fourth lens. f is the focal length ofthe optical image capturing system. HEP is the entrance pupil diameterof the optical image capturing system. HOS is the distance from objectside of the first lens to the image plane. InTL is the distance on theoptical axis from object side of the first lens to image side of thefourth lens. The length of the outline curve of a half of an pupildiameter (HEP) of any surface of a signal lens refers to a length of theoutline curve of the half of the entrance pupil diameter (HEP) from anaxial point on the surface of the lens to a coordinate point ofperpendicular height with the distance of the half of the entrance pupildiameter from the optical axis on the surface along the outline of thesurface of the lens and is denoted by ARE, and the following conditionsare satisfied: 1.2≤f/HEP≤10; 0.5≤HOS/f≤20; 0 mm<PhiD≤2.9 mm; and0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0.

The present invention provides an optical image capturing system, inorder along an optical axis from the object side to the image side,comprise a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, animage plane, a first positioning element and a second positioningelement. The first positioning element comprises a holder. The holder isin a hollow shape and opaque. The holder comprises a cylinder and abasement connected with each other. The cylinder is configured toaccommodate the first lens to the fourth lens. The basement is betweenthe fourth lens and the image plane. An outer periphery of the basementis greater than the outer periphery of the cylinder. The maximum valueof the minimum side length of the basement perpendicular to the opticalaxis is denoted by PhiD. The second positioning element is disposed inthe holder, and comprises a positioning part and a connecting part. Thepositioning part is in a hollow shape and directly contacts andaccommodates any of the four lenses, to arrange the four lenses on theoptical axis. The connecting part is disposed outside the positioningpart and directly contacts an inner periphery of the cylinder. Themaximum outer diameter of the plane of the connection part perpendicularto the optical axis is denoted by PhiC. The first lens has refractivepower. The object side of the first lens adjacent to the optical axis isconvex. The second lens has refractive power. The third lens hasrefractive power. The fourth lens has refractive power. At least onelens among the first lens to the fourth lens has positive refractivepower. Focal lengths of the first lens to the fourth lens are denoted byf1, f2, f3 and f4. The focal length of the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by f. The entrance pupil diameter of the optical imagecapturing system is denoted by HEP. The distance from the object side ofthe first lens to the image plane is denoted by HOS. The distance on theoptical axis from the object side of the first lens to the image side ofthe fourth lens is denoted by InTL. The maximum effective diameter ofthe image side of the fourth lens is denoted by PhiA4. The length of ½entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of any surface of a singlelens refers to an arc length of curve, which starts from a startingpoint which is an intersection point on the surface of the lens crossingthe optical axis of the optical image capturing system, travels alongthe outline of the surface of the lens and ends at a coordinate point onthe surface where the vertical height from the optical axis to thesurface is equivalent to ½ entrance pupil diameter; and the arc lengthmay be denoted by ARE. The following conditions are satisfied:1.2≤f/HEP≤10; 0.5≤HOS/f≤20; PhiC<PhiD; 0 mm<PhiD≤2.9 mm; and0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0.

The length of outline curve of any surface of a single lens in the rangeof the maximum effective half diameter influences the ability of thesurface aberration correction and the optical path difference at eachfield of view. The length of outline curve is longer than the ability ofthe surface aberration correction can be elevated, but this increasesdifficulty in the production. Therefore, the length of the outline curveof any surface of a single lens must be controlled in the range of themaximum effective half diameter. Specifically, the ratio (ARS/TP) of thelength of outline curve of the surface in the range of the maximumeffective half diameter (ARS) to the thickness of the lens to whichsurface belongs on the optical axis (TP) must be controlled. Forexample, the length of the outline curve of the maximum effective halfdiameter position of the object side of the first lens is denoted byARS11. The thickness of the first lens on the optical axis is denoted byTP1. The ratio between both of them is denoted by ARS 11/TP 1. Thelength of the outline curve of the maximum effective half diameterposition of the image side of the first lens is denoted by ARS12. Theratio between ARS12 and TP1 is denoted by ARS12/TP1. The length of theoutline curve of the maximum effective half diameter position of theobject side of the second lens is denoted by ARS21. The thickness of thesecond lens on the optical axis is denoted by TP2. The ratio betweenARS21 and TP2 is denoted by ARS21/TP2. The length of the outline curveof the maximum effective half diameter position of the image side of thesecond lens is denoted by ARS22. The ratio between ARS22 and TP2 isdenoted by ARS22/TP2. The ratio of the lengths of the outline curve ofthe maximum effective half diameter positions of any of the surfaces ofthe other lenses to the thicknesses of the lens to which surface belongson the optical axis (TP) in the optical image capturing system aredenoted in a similar way.

The length of outline curve of any surface of a single lens in the rangeof the height which is half entrance pupil diameter (HEP) especiallyinfluences the ability of the surface aberration correction at thecommon area of each field of view of ray and the optical path differenceat each field of view. The length of outline curve is longer than theability of the surface aberration correction can be elevated, but thisincreases difficulty in the production. Therefore, the length of outlinecurve from any of the surfaces of a single lens must be controlled inthe range of the height, which is the half entrance pupil diameter(HEP). Specifically, the ratio (ARE/TP) of the length of outline curveof the surface (ARE) is in the range of the height which is the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) to the thickness of the lens to whichsurface belongs on the optical axis (TP) must be controlled. Forexample, the length of the outline curve of the height which is the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) of the object side of the first lens isdenoted by ARE11. The thickness of the first lens on the optical axis isdenoted by TP1. The ratio between ARE11 and TP1 is denoted by ARE11/TP1.The length of the outline curve of the height which is the half entrancepupil diameter (HEP) of the image side of the first lens is denoted byARE12. The ratio between ARE12 and TP1 is denoted by ARE12/TP1. Thelength of the outline curve of the height which is the half entrancepupil diameter (HEP) of the object side of the second lens is denoted byARE21. The thickness of the second lens on the optical axis is denotedby TP2. The ratio between ARE21 and TP2 is denoted by ARE21/TP2. Thelength of the outline curve of the height which is the half entrancepupil diameter (HEP) of the image side of the second lens is denoted byARE22. The thickness of the second lens on the optical axis is denotedby TP2. The ratio between ARE22 and TP2 is denoted by ARE22/TP2. Theratio of the length of the outline curve of the height which is the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) of the surface of the other lens to thethickness of the lens to which surface belongs on the optical axis inthe optical image capturing system are expressed in the similar way.

The optical image capturing system described above may be used tocollocate with the image-sensing device whose diagonal length is shorterthan 1/1.2 inches to form an image. Preferably, the size of theimage-sensing device is 1/2.3 inches. The pixel size of theimage-sensing device is smaller than 1.4 micrometers (μm). Preferably,the pixel size of the image-sensing device is smaller than 1.12micrometers (μm). The best pixel size of the image-sensing device issmaller than 0.9 micrometers (μm). Furthermore, the optical imagecapturing system is applicable to the image-sensing device with anaspect ratio of 16:9.

The optical image capturing system described above is applicable to thedemand of video recording with more than millions or tens of millions ofpixels (e.g. 4K and 2K videos or the so-called UHD and QHD) and isendowed with a good image quality.

The height of optical image capturing system (HOS) may be reduced toachieve the minimization of the optical image capturing system when theabsolute value of f1 is larger than f4 (|f1|>f4).

When |f2|+|f3|>|f1|+|f4|, at least one lens among the second lens to thethird lens may have a weak positive refractive power or a weak negativerefractive power. The weak refractive power indicates that an absolutevalue of the focal length of a specific lens is greater than 10. When atleast one lens among the second lens to the third lens has the weakpositive refractive power, the positive refractive power of the firstlens can be shared, such that the unnecessary aberration will not appeartoo early. On the contrary, when at least one lens among the second lensto the third lens has the weak negative refractive power, the aberrationof the optical image capturing system can be corrected and fine-tuned.

The fourth lens may have positive refractive power. Moreover, at leastone surface of the fourth lens may possess at least one inflection pointwhich is capable of effectively reducing the incident angle of theoff-axis rays and may further correct the off-axis aberration.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The structure, operating principle and effects of the present inventionwill be described in detail by way of various embodiments illustrated inthe accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the first embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 1C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of asecond embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the second embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 2C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thesecond embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of athird embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the third embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 3C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thethird embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of afourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the fourth embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 4C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thefourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of afifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the fifth embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 5C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thefifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6A is a schematic view of an optical image capturing system of asixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6B shows curve diagrams of longitudinal spherical aberration,astigmatic field, and optical distortion of the optical image capturingsystem in order from left to right of the sixth embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 6C is a transverse aberration diagram of the longest operationwavelength and the shortest operation wavelength for tangential fan andsagittal fan, in which the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength pass through an margin of the entrance pupil andstrike at the position of 0.7 field of view on the image plane,according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thesixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is schematic view showing maximum effective diameter PhiA4 ofimage side of fourth lens, maximum diameter PhiB of the image side ofthe fourth lens, a maximum value PhiD of the minimum side length of thebasement of the first positioning element perpendicular to the opticalaxis, and the maximum outer diameter PhiC of the connecting part of thesecond positioning element perpendicular to the surface of the opticalaxis.

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An optical image capturing system is provided, which includes, in orderfrom an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, athird lens, a fourth lens with refractive power and an image plane. Theoptical image capturing system may further include an image-sensingdevice, which is disposed on the image plane.

The optical image capturing system may use three sets of operationwavelengths, which are 486.1 nm, 587.5 nm and 656.2 nm, respectively,and 587.5 nm serves as the primary reference wavelength and a referencewavelength to obtain technical features of the optical system. Theoptical image capturing system may also use five sets of wavelengths,which are 470 nm, 510 nm, 555 nm, 610 nm and 650 nm, respectively, and555 nm serves as the primary reference wavelength and a referencewavelength to obtain technical features of the optical system.

The ratio of the focal length f of the optical image capturing system toa focal length fp of each lens with positive refractive power is PPR.The ratio of the focal length f of the optical image capturing system toa focal length fn of each lens with negative refractive power is NPR.The sum of the PPR of all lenses with positive refractive power is ΣPPR.The sum of the NPR of all lenses with negative refractive power is ΣNPR.The total refractive power and the total length of the optical imagecapturing system can be controlled easily when the following conditionis satisfied: 0.5≤ΣPPR/|ΣNPR|≤4.5; preferably, the following conditionis satisfied: 0.9≤ΣPPR/|ΣNPR|≤3.5.

The height of the optical image capturing system is denoted by HOS. Whenthe value of HOS/f is approximately one, the configuration is beneficialfor manufacturing the minimized optical image capturing system with highpixel for image formation.

The sum of the fp of all lenses with positive refractive power of theoptical image capturing system is ΣPP. The sum of the fp of all lenseswith negative refractive power of the optical image capturing system isΣNP. In one embodiment of the optical image capturing system, thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0<ΣPP≤200 and f4/ΣPP≤0.85; preferably,the following condition is satisfied: 0<ΣPP≤150 and 0.01≤f4/ΣPP≤0.7.Hereby, it is favorable to control the ability of focusing for theoptical image capturing system and to distribute appropriately thepositive refractive power of the optical image capturing system suchthat an observable aberration is suppressed to occur too early.

The optical image capturing system may further include an image-sensingdevice, which is disposed on the image plane. A half diagonal of theeffective detection field of the image-sensing device (image formationheight or the maximum image height of the optical image capturingsystem) is denoted by HOI. The distance on the optical axis from theobject side of the first lens to the image plane is denoted by HOS. Thefollowing conditions are satisfied: HOS/HOI≤15 and 0.5≤HOS/f≤20.0.Preferably, the following conditions may be satisfied: 1≤HOS/HOI≤10 and1≤HOS/f≤15. Hereby, this configuration can keep the miniaturization ofthe optical image capturing system to collocate with light and thinportable electronic product.

In addition, in the optical image capturing system of the presentinvention, according to different requirements, at least one aperturemay be arranged to reduce stray light and help elevate the imagequality.

In the optical image capturing system of the invention, the aperture maybe a front or middle aperture. Wherein, the front aperture is theaperture between a photographed object and the first lens while themiddle aperture is the aperture between the first lens and the imageplane. In the case that the aperture is the front aperture, it can makethe optical image capturing system generate a longer distance betweenthe exit pupil and the image plane, such that the optical imagecapturing system can accommodate more optical elements and theefficiency of the image-sensing device in receiving image can beincreased. In the case that the aperture is the middle aperture, it canexpand the angle of view of the optical image capturing system, suchthat the optical image capturing system has the advantage of the cameralens with wide angle. The distance from the foregoing aperture to theimage plane is denoted by InS. The following condition is satisfied:0.2≤InS/HOS≤1.1. Preferably, the following conditions may be satisfied:0.4≤InS/HOS≤1. Therefore, the optical image capturing system can be keptminiaturized and have a feature of wide angle of view.

In the optical image capturing system of the present invention, thedistance from the object side of the first lens to the image side of thefourth lens is denoted by InTL. The sum of thicknesses of all lenseswith refractive power on the optical axis is denoted by ΣTP. Thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0.2≤ΣTP/InTL≤0.95. Preferably, thefollowing condition may be satisfied: 0.2≤ΣTP/InTL≤0.9. Hereby, thisconfiguration can keep the contrast ratio of the optical image capturingsystem and the yield rate about manufacturing lens at the same time, andprovide the proper back focal length to accommodate other elements.

The curvature radius of the object side of the first lens is R1. Thecurvature radius of the image side of the first lens is R2. Thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0.01≤|R1/R2|≤100. Preferably, thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0.01≤|R1/R2|≤60.

The curvature radius of the object side of the fourth lens is R9. Thecurvature radius of the image side of the fourth lens is R10. Thefollowing condition is satisfied: −200<(R7−R8)/(R7+R8)<30. Hereby, thisconfiguration is beneficial for correcting the astigmatism generated bythe optical image capturing system.

The distance between the first lens and the second lens on the opticalaxis is IN12, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<IN12/f≤5.0.Preferably, the following condition is satisfied: 0.01≤IN12/f≤4.0.Thereby, this configuration is helpful to improve the chromaticaberration of the lens in order to elevate the performance of theoptical image capturing system.

The distance between the second lens and the third lens on the opticalaxis is IN23, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<IN23/f≤5.0.Preferably, the following condition is satisfied: 0.01≤IN23/f≤3.0.Thereby, this configuration is helpful to improve the performance of theoptical image capturing system.

The distance between the third lens and the fourth lens on the opticalaxis is IN34, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<IN34/f≤5.0.Preferably, the following condition is satisfied: 0.001≤IN34/f≤3.0.Thereby, this configuration is helpful to improve the performance of theoptical image capturing system.

The central thicknesses of the first lens and the second lens on theoptical axis are respectively TP1 and TP2, and the following conditionis satisfied: 1<(TP1+IN12)/TP2≤20. With this configuration, thesensitivity of the optical image capturing system can be controlled, andits performance can be improved.

Central thicknesses of the third lens and the fourth lens on the opticalaxis are respectively TP3 and TP4. The distance between the third lensand the fourth lens on the optical axis is IN34. The following conditionis satisfied: 0.2≤(TP4+IN34)/TP4≤20. With this configuration, thesensitivity of the optical image capturing system can be controlled andthe total height of the optical image capturing system can be reduced.

The distance between the second lens and the third lens on the opticalaxis is IN23. The sum of central thicknesses of the first lens throughthe fourth lens on the optical axis is ΣTP. The following condition issatisfied: 0.01≤IN23/(TP2+IN23+TP3)≤0.9. Preferably, the followingcondition is satisfied: 0.05≤IN23/(TP2+IN23+TP3)≤0.7. Therefore, thisconfiguration is helpful to slightly correct the aberration of thepropagating process of the incident light layer by layer, and decreasethe total height of the optical image capturing system.

In the optical image capturing system of the present invention, thehorizontal distance parallel to the optical axis, which is measured fromthe intersection point where the object side of the fourth lens crossesthe optical axis to the terminal point of the maximum effective halfdiameter on the object side of the fourth lens, is denoted by InRS41(When the horizontal distance is toward the image side, InRS41 is apositive value. When the horizontal distance is toward the object side,InRS41 is a negative value). The horizontal distance parallel to theoptical axis, which is measured from the intersection point where theimage side of the fourth lens crosses the optical axis to the terminalpoint of the maximum effective half diameter on the image side of thefourth lens, is denoted by InRS42. The central thickness of the fourthlens 140 is TP4, and the following conditions are satisfied: −1mm≤InRS41≤1 mm, −1 mm≤InRS42≤1 mm, 1 mm≤|InRS41|+|InRS42|≤2 mm,0.01≤|InRS41|/TP4≤10, 0.01≤|InRS42|/TP4≤10. Hereby, the control of theposition of the maximum effective half diameter between the object sideand the image side of the fourth lens is favorable to correction ofaberration for peripheral field of view of the optical image capturingsystem and effective maintenance of miniaturization of the optical imagecapturing system.

In the optical image capturing system of the present invention, thehorizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side of the fourth lens that is the first nearest tothe optical axis to an intersection point where the object side of thefourth lens crosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI411. Thehorizontal distance in parallel with the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the image side of the fourth lens that is the first nearest tothe optical axis to an intersection point where the image side of thefourth lens crosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI421. The followingconditions are satisfied: 0<SGI411/(SGI411+TP4)≤0.9 and0<SGI421/(SGI421+TP4)≤0.9. Preferably, the following conditions aresatisfied: 0.01≤SGI411/(SGI411+TP4)≤0.7 and0.01<SGI421/(SGI421+TP4)≤0.7.

In the optical image capturing system of the present invention, thehorizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side of the fourth lens that is second nearest tothe optical axis to an intersection point where the object side of thefourth lens crosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI412. Thehorizontal distance in parallel with the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the image side of the fourth lens that is second nearest to theoptical axis to an intersection point where the image side of the fourthlens crosses the optical axis is denoted by SGI422. The followingconditions are satisfied: 0<SGI412/(SGI412+TP4)≤0.9 and0<SGI422/(SGI422+TP4)≤0.9. Preferably, the following conditions aresatisfied: 0.1≤SGI412/(SGI412+TP4)≤0.8 and 0.1≤SGI422/(SGI422+TP4)≤0.8.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside of the fourth lens that is the first nearest to the optical axisand the optical axis is denoted by HIF411. The perpendicular distancebetween an intersection point where the image side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis and an inflection point on the image side ofthe fourth lens that is the first nearest to the optical axis is denotedby HIF421. The following conditions are satisfied: 0.01≤HIF411/HOI≤0.9,and 0.01≤HIF421/HOI≤0.9. Preferably, the following conditions aresatisfied: 0.09≤HIF411/HOI≤0.5 and 0.09≤HIF421/HOI≤0.5.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside of the fourth lens that is the second nearest to the optical axisand the optical axis is denoted by HIF412. The perpendicular distancebetween an intersection point where the image side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis and an inflection point on the image side ofthe fourth lens that is the second nearest to the optical axis isdenoted by HIF422. The following conditions are satisfied:0.01≤HIF412/HOI≤0.9, and 0.01≤HIF422/HOI≤0.9. Preferably, the followingconditions are satisfied: 0.09≤HIF412/HOI≤0.8 and 0.09≤HIF422/HOI≤0.8.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside of the fourth lens that is the third nearest to the optical axisand the optical axis is denoted by HIF413. The perpendicular distancebetween an intersection point where the image side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis and an inflection point on the image side ofthe fourth lens that is the third nearest to the optical axis is denotedby HIF423. The following conditions are satisfied: 0.001 mm≤HIF413|≤5mm, and 0.001 mm≤|HIF423|≤5 mm. Preferably, the following conditions aresatisfied: 0.1 mm≤|HIF423|≤3.5 mm and 0.1 mm≤|HIF413|≤3.5 mm.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside of the fourth lens that is the fourth nearest to the optical axisand the optical axis is denoted by HIF414. The perpendicular distancebetween an intersection point where the image side of the fourth lenscrosses the optical axis and an inflection point on the image side ofthe fourth lens that is the fourth nearest to the optical axis isdenoted by HIF424. The following conditions are satisfied: 0.001mm≤|HIF414|≤5 mm, and 0.001 mm≤|HIF424|≤5 mm. Preferably, the followingconditions are satisfied: 0.1 mm≤|HIF424|≤3.5 mm and 0.1 mm≤|HIF414|≤3.5mm.

In one embodiment of the optical image capturing system of the presentinvention, the chromatic aberration of the optical image capturingsystem can be corrected by alternatively arranging the lenses with largecoefficient of dispersion and small coefficient of dispersion, and thechromatic aberration of the optical image capturing system can becorrected.

The equation for the aforementioned aspheric surface is:

z=ch ²/[1+[1−(k+1)c ² h ²]^(0.5)]+A4h ⁴ +A6h ⁶ +A8h ⁸ +A10h ¹⁰ +A12h ¹²+A14h ¹⁴ +A16h ¹⁶ +A18h ¹⁸ +A20h ²⁰+ . . .   (1)

where z is a position value of the position along the optical axis andat the height h which reference to the surface apex; k is the coniccoefficient, c is the reciprocal of curvature radius, and A4, A6, A8,A10, A12, A14, A16, A18, and A20 are high order aspheric coefficients.

In the optical image capturing system provided by the present invention,the lens may be made of glass or plastic. If the lens is made ofplastic, it can reduce the manufacturing cost as well as the weight ofthe lens effectively. If lens is made of glass, it can control the heateffect and increase the design space of the configuration of the lenswith refractive power in the optical image capturing system. Besides,the object side and the image side of the first lens through sixth lensmay be aspheric, which can gain more control variables and even reducethe number of the used lenses in contrast to traditional glass lens inaddition to the use of reducing the aberration. Thus, the total heightof the optical image capturing system can be reduced effectively.

Furthermore, in the optical image capturing system provided by thepresent invention, when the surface of lens is a convex surface, thesurface of that lens is a convex surface in the vicinity of the opticalaxis in principle. When the surface of lens is a concave surface, thesurface of that lens is a concave surface in the vicinity of the opticalaxis in principle.

In addition, in the optical image capturing system of the disclosure,according to different requirements, at least one aperture may bearranged for reducing stray light and improving the imaging quality.

The optical image capturing system of the present invention can beapplied to the optical image capturing system with automatic focus basedon the demand and have characters of the good aberration correction andthe good image quality. Thereby, the optical image capturing system canexpand the application aspect.

The optical image capturing system of the present invention may includea driving module upon demand, the driving module couples with the fourlenses to displace the lenses. The driving module described above may bethe voice coil motor (VCM) which is applied to move the lens to focus,or may be the optical image stabilization (OIS) which is applied toreduce the frequency the optical system is out of focus owing to thevibration of the lens during photo or video shooting.

At least one lens among the first, second, third and fourth lenses maybe a light filtering element for light with wavelength of less than 500nm, depending on the design requirements. The light filtering elementmay be made by coating film on at least one surface of that lens withcertain filtering function, or forming that lens with material that canfilter light with short wavelength.

According to the above embodiments, the specific embodiments withfigures are presented in detail as below.

The First Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D. FIG. 1A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the first embodiment of the presentinvention. FIG. 1B shows the longitudinal spherical aberration curves,astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of the opticalimage capturing system in order from left to right according to thefirst embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the first embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 1D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the first embodiment of the present invention.As shown in FIG. 1A, in order along an optical axis from an object sideto an image side, the optical image capturing system 10 comprises afirst lens 110, a second lens 120, an aperture 100, a third lens 130, afourth lens 140, an IR-bandstop filter 170, an image plane 180 and animage-sensing device 190.

The first lens 110 has negative refractive power and is made of a glass.The first lens 110 has a convex object side 112 and the first lens 110has a concave image side 114. Both of the object side 112 and the imageside 114 thereof are aspheric. The length of the outline curve of themaximum effective half diameter of the object side 112 of the first lens110 is denoted by ARS11. The length of the outline curve of the maximumeffective half diameter of the image side 114 of the first lens 110 isdenoted by ARS12. The length of the outline curve of half entrance pupildiameter (HEP) of the object side 112 of the first lens 110 is denotedby ARE11. The length of the outline curve of half entrance pupildiameter (HEP) of the image side 114 of the first lens 110 is denoted byARE12. The central thickness of the first lens 110 on the optical axisis TP1. The maximum effective half diameter of the object side 112 ofthe first lens 110 is denoted by EHD11 and the maximum effective halfdiameter of the image side 114 of the first lens 110 is denoted byEHD12.

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side 112 of the first lens 110 that is the firstnearest to the optical axis to the intersection point where the objectside 112 of the first lens 110 crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI111. The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from aninflection point on the image side 114 of the first lens 110 that is thefirst nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point where theimage side 114 of the first lens 110 crosses the optical axis is denotedby SGI121. The following conditions are satisfied: SGI111=0 mm, SGI121=0mm, |SGI111|/(|SGI111|+TP1)=0 and |SGI121|/(|SGI121|+TP1)=0.

The perpendicular distance between the optical axis and the inflectionpoint on the object side 112 of the first lens 110 that is the firstnearest to the optical axis is denoted by HIF111. The perpendiculardistance between the optical axis and the inflection point on the imageside 114 of the first lens 110 that is the first nearest to the opticalaxis is denoted by HIF121. The following conditions are satisfied:HIF111=0 mm, HIF121=0 mm, HIF111/HOI=0 and HIF121/HOI=0.

The second lens 120 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 122 of the second lens 120 is a concave surfaceand an image side 124 of the second lens 120 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 122 and the image side 124 of the second lens 120 areaspheric. The object side 122 of the second lens 120 has one inflectionpoint. The length of the maximum effective half diameter outline curveof the object side 122 of the second lens 120 is denoted by ARS21. Thelength of the maximum effective half diameter outline curve of the imageside 124 of the second lens 120 is denoted by ARS22. The length of thehalf entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the object side 122of the second lens 120 is denoted by ARE21. The length of the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the image side 124 of thesecond lens 120 is denoted by ARE22. The thickness of the second lens120 on the optical axis is denoted by TP2. The maximum effective halfdiameter of the object side 122 of the second lens 120 is denoted byEHD21 and the maximum effective half diameter of the image side 124 ofthe second lens 120 is denoted by EHD22.

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side 122 of the second lens 120 that is the firstnearest to the optical axis to an intersection point where the objectside 122 of the second lens 120 crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI211. The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from aninflection point on the image side 124 of the second lens 120 that isthe first nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point wherethe image side 124 of the second lens 120 crosses the optical axis isdenoted by SGI221. The following conditions are satisfied:SGI211=−0.13283 mm and |SGI211|/(|SGI211|+TP2)=0.05045.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside 122 of the second lens 120 that is the first nearest to the opticalaxis and the optical axis is denoted by HIF211. The perpendiculardistance between the inflection point on the image side 124 of thesecond lens 120 that is the first nearest to the optical axis and theoptical axis is denoted by HIF221. The following conditions aresatisfied: HIF211=2.10379 mm and HIF211/HOI=0.69478.

The third lens 130 has negative refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 132 of the third lens 130 is a concave surface and animage side 134 of the third lens 130 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 132 and the image side 134 of the third lens 130 areaspheric. The image side 134 of the third lens 130 has one inflectionpoint. The length of the maximum effective half diameter outline curveof the object side 132 of the third lens 130 is denoted by ARS31. Thelength of the maximum effective half diameter outline curve of the imageside 134 of the third lens 130 is denoted by ARS32. The length of thehalf entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the object side 132of the third lens 130 is denoted by ARE31. The length of the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the image side 134 of thethird lens 130 is denoted by ARE32. The thickness of the third lens 130on the optical axis is denoted by TP3. The maximum effective halfdiameter of the object side 132 of the third lens 130 is denoted byEHD31 and the maximum effective half diameter of the image side 134 ofthe third lens 130 is denoted by EHD32.

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side 132 of the third lens 130 that is the firstnearest to the optical axis to an intersection point where the objectside 132 of the third lens 130 crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI311. The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from aninflection point on the image side 134 of the third lens 130 that is thefirst nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point where theimage side 134 of the third lens 130 crosses the optical axis is denotedby SGI321. The following conditions are satisfied: SGI321=0.01218 mm and|SGI321|/(|SGI321|+TP3)=0.03902.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside 132 of the third lens 130 that is the first nearest to the opticalaxis and the optical axis is denoted by HIF311. The perpendiculardistance between the inflection point on the image side 134 of the thirdlens 130 that is the first nearest to the optical axis and the opticalaxis is denoted by HIF321. The following conditions are satisfied:HIF321=0.84373 mm and HIF321/HOI=0.27864.

The fourth lens 140 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 is a convex surfaceand an image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 142 and the image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 areaspheric. The image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 has one inflectionpoint. The length of the maximum effective half diameter outline curveof the object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 is denoted by ARS41. Thelength of the maximum effective half diameter outline curve of the imageside 144 of the fourth lens 140 is denoted by ARS42. The length of thehalf entrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the object side 142of the fourth lens 140 is denoted by ARE41. The length of the halfentrance pupil diameter (HEP) outline curve of the image side 144 of thefourth lens 140 is denoted by ARE42. The thickness of the fourth lens140 on the optical axis is denoted by TP4. The maximum effective halfdiameter of the object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 is denoted byEHD41 and the maximum effective half diameter of the image side 144 ofthe fourth lens 140 is denoted by EHD42.

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 that is the firstnearest to the optical axis to an intersection point where the objectside 142 of the fourth lens 140 crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI411. The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from aninflection point on the image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 that isthe first nearest to the optical axis to the intersection point wherethe image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 crosses the optical axis isdenoted by SGI421. The following conditions are satisfied: SGI411=0 mm,SGI421=−0.41627 mm, |SGI411|/(|SGI411|+TP4)=0 and|SGI421|/(|SGI421|+TP4)=0.25015.

The horizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from an inflectionpoint on the object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 that is the secondnearest to the optical axis to an intersection point where the objectside 142 of the fourth lens 140 crosses the optical axis is denoted bySGI412. The following conditions are satisfied: SGI412=0 mm and|SGI412|/(|SGI412|+TP4)=0.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside 142 of the forth lens 140 that is the first nearest to the opticalaxis and the optical axis is denoted by HIF411. The perpendiculardistance between the inflection point on the image side 144 of thefourth lens 140 that is the first nearest to the optical axis and theoptical axis is denoted by HIF421. The following conditions aresatisfied: HIF411=0 mm, HIF421=1.55079 mm, HIF411/HOI=0 andHIF421/HOI=0.51215.

The perpendicular distance between the inflection point on the objectside 142 of the fourth lens 140 that is the second nearest to theoptical axis and the optical axis is denoted by HIF412. The followingconditions are satisfied: HIF412=0 mm and HIF412/HOI=0.

The IR-bandstop filter 170 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 170is disposed between the fourth lens 140 and the image plane 180, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system10.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thefocal length of the optical image capturing system 10 is denoted by f.The entrance pupil diameter of the optical image capturing system 10 isdenoted by HEP. The half maximum angle of view of the optical imagecapturing system 10 is denoted by HAF. The detailed parameters are shownas below: f=2.6841 mm, f/HEP=2.7959, HAF=70 deg. and tan(HAF)=2.7475.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thefocal length of the first lens 110 is denoted by f1 and the focal lengthof the fourth lens 140 is denoted by f4. The following conditions aresatisfied: f1=−5.4534 mm, |f/f1|=0.4922, f4=2.7595 mm and|f1/f4|=1.9762.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, focallengths of the second lens 120 to the third lens 130 may be respectivelyexpressed as f2 and f3. The following conditions are satisfied:|f2|+|f3|=13.2561 mm, |f1|+|f4|=8.2129 mm and |f2|+|f3|>|f1|+|f4|.

The ratio of the focal length f of the optical image capturing system 10to the focal length fp of each of lenses with positive refractive poweris denoted by PPR. The ratio of the focal length f of the optical imagecapturing system 10 to a focal length fn of each of lenses with negativerefractive power is denoted by NPR. In the optical image capturingsystem 10 of the first embodiment, the sum of the PPR of all lenses withpositive refractive power is ΣPPR=|f/f2|+|f/f4|=1.25394. The sum of theNPR of all lenses with negative refractive power isΣNPR=|f/f1|+|f/f2|=1.21490, ΣPPR/|ΣNPR|=1.03213. Simultaneously, thefollowing conditions are also satisfied: |f/f1|=0.49218, |f/f2|=0.28128,|f/f3|=0.72273, |f/f4|=0.97267.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thedistance from the object side 112 of the first lens 110 to the imageside 144 of the fourth lens 140 is denoted by InTL. The distance fromthe object side 112 of the first lens 110 to the image plane 180 isdenoted by HOS. The distance from the aperture 100 to the image plane180 is denoted by InS. A half diagonal length of the effective detectionfield of the image-sensing device 190 is denoted by HOI. The distancefrom the image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 to the image plane 180 isdenoted by InB. The following conditions are satisfied: InTL+InB=HOS,HOS=18.74760 mm, HOI=3.088 mm, HOS/HOI=6.19141, HOS/f=6.9848,InTL/HOS=0.6605, InS=8.2310 mm and InS/HOS=0.4390.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, atotal thickness of all lenses with refractive power on the optical axisis denoted by ΣTP. The following conditions are satisfied: ΣTP=4.9656 mmand ΣTP/InTL=0.4010. Hereby, this configuration can keep the contrastratio of the optical image capturing system and the yield rate aboutmanufacturing lens at the same time, and provide the proper back focallength to accommodate other elements.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thecurvature radius of the object side 112 of the first lens 110 is denotedby R1. The curvature radius of the image side 114 of the first lens 110is denoted by R2. The following condition is satisfied: |R1/R2|=9.6100.Hereby, the first lens has a suitable magnitude of positive refractivepower to prevent the longitudinal spherical aberration from increasingtoo fast.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thecurvature radius of the object side 142 of the fourth lens 140 isdenoted by R7. The curvature radius of the image side 144 of the fourthlens 140 is denoted by R8. The following condition is satisfied:(R7−R8)/(R7+R8)=−35.5932. Hereby, this configuration is beneficial forcorrecting the astigmatism generated by the optical image capturingsystem.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thesum of focal lengths of all lenses with positive refractive power isdenoted by ΣPP. The following conditions are satisfied: ΣPP=12.30183 mmand f4/ΣPP=0.22432. Hereby, this configuration is helpful to distributethe positive refractive power of the fourth lens 140 to other lenseswith positive refractive power in an appropriate way to suppress thegeneration of noticeable aberrations in the propagating process of theincident light in the optical image capturing system 10.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thesum of focal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power isdenoted by ΣNP. The following conditions are satisfied: ΣNP=−14.6405 mmand f1/ΣNP=0.59488. Hereby, this configuration is helpful to distributethe negative refractive power of the fourth lens 140 to other lenseswith negative refractive power in an appropriate way to suppress thegeneration of noticeable aberrations in the propagating process of theincident light in the optical image capturing system 10.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thedistance on the optical axis between the first lens 110 and the secondlens 120 is denoted by IN12. The following conditions are satisfied:IN12=4.5709 mm and IN12/f=1.70299. Therefore, this configuration ishelpful to improve the chromatic aberration of the lens in order toelevate the performance of the optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thedistance on the optical axis between the second lens 120 and the thirdlens 130 is denoted by IN23. The following conditions are satisfied:IN23=2.7524 mm and IN23/f=1.02548. Therefore, this configuration ishelpful to improve the chromatic aberration of the lens in order toelevate the performance of the optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thedistance on the optical axis between the third lens 130 and the fourthlens 140 is denoted by IN34. The following conditions are satisfied:IN34=0.0944 mm and IN34/f=0.03517. Therefore, this configuration ishelpful to improve the chromatic aberration of the lens in order toelevate the performance of the optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thethicknesses of the first lens 110 and the second lens 120 on the opticalaxis is denoted by respectively as TP1 and TP2. The following conditionsare satisfied: TP1=0.9179 mm, TP2=2.5000 mm, TP1/TP2=0.36715 and(TP1+IN12)/TP2=2.19552. Therefore, this configuration is helpful tocontrol the sensitivity generated by the optical image capturing systemand elevate the performance of the optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thethicknesses of the third lens 130 and the fourth lens 140 on the opticalaxis is denoted by respectively as TP3 and TP4 and the distance betweenthe aforementioned two lenses on the optical axis is IN34. The followingconditions are satisfied: TP3=0.3 mm, TP4=1.2478 mm, TP3/TP4=0.24043 and(TP4+IN34)/TP3=4.47393. Therefore, this configuration is helpful tocontrol the sensitivity generated by the optical image capturing systemand decrease the total height of the optical image capturing system ofthe first embodiment.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thefollowing conditions are satisfied: IN23/(TP2+IN23+TP3)=0.49572.Therefore, this configuration is helpful to slightly correct theaberration of the propagating process of the incident light layer bylayer and decrease the total height of the optical image capturingsystem.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thehorizontal distance parallel to the optical axis from a maximumeffective diameter position on the object side 142 of the fourth lens140 to the intersection point where the object side 142 of the fourthlens 140 crosses the optical axis is denoted by InRS41. The horizontaldistance parallel to the optical axis from a maximum effective diameterposition on the image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 to an intersectionpoint where the image side 144 of the fourth lens 140 crosses theoptical axis is denoted by InRS42. The thickness of the fourth lens 140on the optical axis is denoted by TP4. The following conditions aresatisfied: InRS41=0.2955 mm, InRS42=−0.4940 mm, |InRS41|+|InRS42|=0.7894mm, |InRS41|/TP4=0.23679, and |InRS42|/TP4=0.39590. Hereby, theconfiguration is favorable to the manufacturing and forming of the lensand maintaining the minimization for the optical image capturing system.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, theperpendicular distance between a critical point C41 on the object side142 of the fourth lens 140 and the optical axis is denoted by HVT41. Theperpendicular distance between a critical point C42 on the image side144 of the fourth lens 140 and the optical axis is denoted by HVT42. Thefollowing conditions are satisfied: HVT41=0 mm, HVT42=0 mm.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thefollowing condition is satisfied: HVT42/HOI=0.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thefollowing condition is satisfied: HVT42/HOS=0.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, thecoefficient of dispersion of the first lens 110 is denoted by NA1. Thecoefficient of dispersion of the second lens 120 is denoted by NA2. Thecoefficient of dispersion of the third lens 130 is denoted by NA3. Thecoefficient of dispersion of the fourth lens 140 is denoted by NA4. Thefollowing condition is satisfied: |NA1−NA2|=0.0351. Hereby, thisconfiguration is helpful to correct the chromatic aberration of theoptical image capturing system 10.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of the first embodiment, TVdistortion and optical distortion for image formation in the opticalimage capturing system 10 may be respectively expressed as TDT and ODT.The following conditions are satisfied: TDT=37.4846% and ODT=−55.3331%.

In the optical image capturing system 10 of this embodiment, thetransverse aberration of the visible lights with the longest operationwavelength from a positive tangential fan, which passes through themargin of the entrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 field ofview on the image plane 180, is denoted by PLTA, and PLTA=−0.018 mm. Thetransverse aberration of the visible lights with the shortest operationwavelength from a positive tangential fan, which passes through themargin of the entrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 field ofview on the image plane 180, is denoted by PSTA, and PSTA=0.010 mm. Thetransverse aberration of the visible lights with the longest operationwavelength from the negative tangential fan, which passes through themargin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of 0.7 field ofview on the image plane, is denoted by NLTA, and NLTA=0.003 mm. Thetransverse aberration of the visible lights with the shortest operationwavelength from the negative tangential fan, which passes through themargin of the entrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 field ofview on the image plane 180, is denoted by NSTA, and NSTA=−0.003 mm. Thetransverse aberration of the visible lights with the longest operationwavelength from the sagittal fan, which passes through the margin of theentrance pupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 field of view on theimage plane 180, is denoted by SLTA, and SLTA=−0.010 mm. The transverseaberration of the visible lights with the shortest operation wavelengthfrom the sagittal fan, which passes through the margin of the entrancepupil and strikes at the position of 0.7 field of view on the imageplane 180, is denoted by SSTA, and SSTA=0.003 mm.

FIG. 1D is a numerical diagram of relative illuminance at each field ofview on the image plane for an optical image capturing system of thefirst embodiment of the present invention. The relative illuminance ofthe optical axis (0.0 field of view), 0.1 field of view, 0.2 field ofview, 0.3 field of view, 0.4 field of view, 0.5 field of view, 0.6 fieldof view, 0.7 field of view, 0.8 field of view, 0.9 field of view and 1.0field of view is denoted by RI1, RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, RI6, RI7, RI8, RI9and RI10, wherein the relative illuminance of 0.9 field of view RI9 isappropriately 80%.

Please refer to FIG. 7; the optical image capturing system of thisembodiment may include an image-sensing module (not shown in FIG. 7).The image-sensing module includes a substrate and a photosensitiveelement disposed on the substrate. The optical image capturing systemmay include a first positioning element 710. The first positioningelement 710 comprises a base 712 and a holder 714. The base 712 has anopen accommodation space disposed on the substrate and used toaccommodate the photosensitive element. The holder 714 is in a hollowshape and opaque. Optionally, the holder 714 can be formed integrally.The holder 714 has a cylinder 7141 and a basement 7142. The holder 714has a first through hole 7143 and a second through hole 7144 which areformed on the two opposite ends, respectively. The first through hole7143 is connected with the cylinder 7141. The second through hole 7144is connected with the basement 7142. A maximum value of the minimum sidelength of the basement 7142 perpendicular to the optical axis is denotedby PhiD, and PhiD=3.3 mm.

The optical image capturing system of this embodiment includes a secondpositioning element 720. The second positioning element 720 is disposedin the holder 714 of the first positioning element 710, and comprises apositioning part 722 and a connecting part 724. The positioning part 722is in a hollow shape and has a third through hole 7241 and a fourththrough hole 7242 which are formed on the two opposite ends thereof ofthe optical axis. The third through hole 7241 is connected thepositioning part 722, and the fourth through hole 7242 is connected withthe basement 7142. The positioning part 722 directly contacts with anyof the lenses of this embodiment, and generates the positioning effectof accommodating the lens and arranging the lens on the optical axis.The connecting part 724 is disposed outside the positioning part 722 andcan directly combine with the cylinder 7141, so that the secondpositioning element 720 can be disposed in the holder 714 of the firstpositioning element 710 and the optical image capturing system 10 hasfunction of adjusting and positioning the focal length in optical axisdirection. The maximum outer diameter of the plane of the connectionpart 724 perpendicular to the optical axis is denoted by PhiC, andPhiC=2.85 mm. The maximum diameter of the inner hole of the fourththrough hole 7242 is denoted by Phi4. The foregoing connecting part 724may possess the thread and make the second positioning element 720 beengaged with the holder 714 of the first positioning element 710.

Any of lenses of this embodiment can be indirectly disposed in the firstpositioning element 710 by the second positioning element 720, anddisposed closer to the third through hole 7241 than the photosensitiveelement, and face the photosensitive element.

In this embodiment, the lens which is the nearest to the image plane 780is the fourth lens 740, a maximum effective diameter of the image side744 of the fourth lens 740 is denoted by PhiA4, and the followingcondition is satisfied: PhiA4=a double of EHD42=1.767 mm. The image side744 of the fourth lens 740 is aspheric, and cutoff points of the maximumeffective diameter include cutoff points of the aspheric surface. Theineffective half diameter (IHD) of image side 744 of the fourth lens 740is a surface section extended from the cutoff points of the maximumeffective half diameter of the same surface in a direction away from theoptical axis. In this embodiment, the lens which is the nearest to theimage plane 780 is the fourth lens 740. The maximum diameter of theimage side 744 of the fourth lens 740 is denoted by PhiB, and thefollowing condition is satisfied: PhiB=a double of (a maximum EHD 42+amaximum IHD)=PhiA4+a double of a (maximum IHD)=2.167 mm.

In this embodiment, the maximum effective diameter of the image side 744of the fourth lens 740 which is the nearest to the image plane 780 (thatis, the image space), also called optical exit pupil, is denoted byPhiA4. The pupil magnification ratio of the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by PMR, and the following condition is satisfied:PMR=PhiA4/HEP=1.84337. A ratio to pupil and image is denoted by PMMR,and the following condition is satisfied: PMMR=PhiA4/ImgH=0.58355. Acondensed ratio is denoted by PSMR, and the following condition issatisfied: PSMR=PhiA4/InTL=0.14269.

Table 1 and Table 2 below should be incorporated into the reference ofthe first embodiment.

TABLE 1 Lens Parameter for the First Embodiment f (focal length) =2.6841 mm, f/HEP = 2.7959, HAF (half angle of view) = 70 deg, tan(HAF) =2.7475 Surface Thickness No. Curvature Radius (mm) Material 0 ObjectPlane infinity 1 First Lens 31.98102785 0.918 Glass 2 3.327880578 4.5713 Second Lens −15.2556818 2.500 Plastic 4 −4.681543531 2.528 5 AperturePlane 0.225 6 Third Lens −2.453543123 0.300 Plastic 7 127.8664454 0.0948 Fourth Lens 2.697747363 1.248 Plastic 9 −2.853715061 0.725 10IR-bandstop Plane 2.000 BK7_SCHOTT Filter 11 Plane 3.640 12 Image PlanePlane Surface No. Refractive Index Coefficient of Dispersion FocalLength 0 1 1.688 50.26 −5.453 2 3 1.642 22.46 9.542 4 5 6 1.642 22.46−3.714 7 8 1.544 56.09 2.759 9 10 1.517 64.13 11 12 ReferenceWavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position: the 3rd surface with effectiveaperture radius = 3.0 mm

TABLE 2 Aspheric Coefficients of the First Embodiment Table 2: AsphericCoefficients Surface No. 3 4 6 k −2.918829E+01 −3.214789E+00−1.504539E+01 A4 −9.004096E−04 −9.725260E−06 8.890018E−05 A62.391364E−04 −8.096303E−05 −1.166688E−02 A8 −2.421089E−05 7.787465E−07−5.720942E−04 A10 1.716292E−06 3.517517E−07 8.305770E−04 A120.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 Surface No. 7 8 9 k −2.970417E+01−1.613370E+01 −1.145951E+00 A4 3.634454E−02 9.587367E−03 −4.742020E−03A6 −3.060142E−02 −3.693991E−03 1.232422E−03 A8 8.833265E−03 8.653836E−043.333400E−04 A10 −1.362695E−03 −7.093620E−05 −2.583094E−06 A120.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 1 and table 2.

First Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.480 0.480 0.000100.00% 0.918 52.30% 12 0.480 0.482 0.002 100.35% 0.918 52.48% 21 0.4800.480 0.000 100.02% 2.500 19.20% 22 0.480 0.481 0.001 100.17% 2.50019.23% 31 0.480 0.482 0.002 100.49% 0.300 160.78% 32 0.480 0.480 0.000100.00% 0.300 160.00% 41 0.480 0.482 0.002 100.42% 1.248 38.63% 42 0.4800.482 0.002 100.47% 1.248 38.65% ARS EHD ARS value ARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) %TP ARS/TP (%) 11 5.943 5.978 0.035 100.58% 0.918 651.27% 12 3.236 4.4391.204 137.20% 0.918 483.66% 21 3.000 3.007 0.007 100.24% 2.500 120.29%22 2.855 2.983 0.128 104.49% 2.500 119.33% 31 1.061 1.079 0.017 101.61%0.300 359.54% 32 1.293 1.292 −0.001  99.95% 0.300 430.77% 41 1.642 1.6760.034 102.06% 1.248 134.30% 42 1.767 1.859 0.092 105.21% 1.248 148.98%

Table 1 is the detailed structure data to the first embodiment in FIG.1A, wherein the unit of the curvature radius, the thickness, thedistance, and the focal length is millimeters (mm). Surfaces 0-12illustrate the surfaces from the object side to the image side in theoptical image capturing system. Table 2 is the aspheric coefficients ofthe first embodiment, wherein k is the conic coefficient in the asphericsurface formula, and A1-A20 are the first to the twentieth orderaspheric surface coefficient. Furthermore, the tables in the followingembodiments are referenced to the schematic view and the aberrationgraphs, respectively, and definitions of parameters in the tables areequal to those in the Table 1 and the Table 2, so the repetitiousdetails will not be given here.

The Second Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D. FIG. 2A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the second embodiment of thepresent invention. FIG. 2B shows the longitudinal spherical aberrationcurves, astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of theoptical image capturing system in order from left to right according tothe second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the second embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 2D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the second embodiment of the presentinvention. As shown in FIG. 2A, in order along an optical axis from anobject side to an image side, the optical image capturing system 20comprises a first lens 210, an aperture 200, a second lens 220, a thirdlens 230, a fourth lens 240, an IR-bandstop filter 270, an image plane280 and an image-sensing device 290.

The first lens 210 has negative refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 212 of the first lens 210 is a convex surface and animage side 214 of the first lens 210 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 212 and the image side 214 of the first lens 210 areaspheric. Both of the object side 212 and the image side 214 of thefirst lens 210 has one inflection point.

The second lens 220 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 222 of the second lens 220 is a convex surfaceand an image side 224 of the second lens 220 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 222 and the image side 224 of the second lens 220 areaspheric. The object side 222 of the second lens 220 has one inflectionpoint.

The third lens 230 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 232 of the third lens 230 is a concave surface and animage side 234 of the third lens 230 is a convex surface. Both of theobject side 232 and the image side 234 of the third lens 230 areaspheric. Both of the object side 232 and the image side 234 of thethird lens 230 has one inflection point.

The fourth lens 240 has negative refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 242 of the fourth lens 240 is convex a surfaceand an image side 244 of the fourth lens 240 is a concave surface. Bothof the object side 242 and the image side 244 of the fourth lens 240 areaspheric. Both of the object side 242 and the image side 244 of thefourth lens 240 has one inflection point.

The IR-bandstop filter 270 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 270is disposed between the fourth lens 240 and the image plane 280, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system20.

In the optical image capturing system 20 of the second embodiment, bothof the second lens 220 and the third lens 230 have positive refractivepower. The focal lengths of the second lens 220 and the third lens 230are respectively expressed as f2 and f3. The sum of the fp of all lenseswith positive refractive power of the optical image capturing system 20is ΣPP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣPP=f2+f3. Hereby,this configuration is helpful to distribute the positive refractivepower of the single lens to other lenses with positive refractive powerin an appropriate way to suppress the generation of noticeableaberrations in the propagating process of the incident light in theoptical image capturing system 20.

In the optical image capturing system 20 of the second embodiment, a sumof the focal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power is ΣNP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣNP=f1+f3.

Please refer to the following Table 3 and Table 4. The detailed data ofthe optical image capturing system 20 of the second Embodiment is asshown in Table 3.

TABLE 3 Lens Parameter for the Second Embodiment f (focal length) =1.323 mm, f/HEP = 1.8, HAF (half angle of view) = 37.5 deg, tan(HAF) =0.7673 Surface Thickness No. Curvature Radius (mm) Material 0 ObjectPlane Infinity 1 First Lens 2.815155869 0.175 Plastic 2 1.16843349 0.0513 Aperture Plane 0.066 4 Second Lens 0.599339272 0.450 Plastic 5−1.411016917 0.133 6 Third Lens −0.317760089 0.187 Plastic 7−0.356324528 0.050 8 Fourth Lens 1.400960481 0.238 Plastic 9 0.6861438260.219 10 IR-bandstop Plane 0.210 BK7_SCHOTT Filter 11 Plane 0.31 12Image Plane Plane Surface No. Refractive Index Coefficient of DispersionFocal Length 0 1 1.515 56.55 −4.014 2 3 4 1.544 55.96 0.837 5 6 1.64222.46 5.004 7 8 1.642 22.46 −2.390 9 10 1.517 64.13 11 12 ReferenceWavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position: the 1st surface with effectiveaperture radius = 0.43 mm; the 5th surface with effective apertureradius = 0.390 mm

TABLE 4 Aspheric Coefficients of the Second Embodiment Table 4: AsphericCoefficients Surface No. 1 2 4 5 k −2.100896E+01 −3.117650E+01−6.594072E−01 −5.749340E+00 A4 −1.034815E+00 −1.247743E+00 −2.144582E+00−5.564182E−01 A6 −1.467293E+01 −3.933644E+01 −2.397809E+01 −5.601046E+01A8 4.846220E+02 1.049222E+03 1.466540E+03 7.715029E+02 A10 −7.102825E+03−1.234792E+04 −4.393327E+04 −8.580555E+03 A12 5.884002E+04 5.356074E+047.002153E+05 6.735915E+04 A14 −2.820526E+05 1.558329E+05 −6.248007E+06−2.902619E+05 A16 7.245452E+05 −2.134561E+06 2.912419E+07 5.267012E+05A18 −7.701193E+05 5.176547E+06 −5.535295E+07 −1.326747E+05 A201.874256E+01 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 Surface No. 6 7 8 9k −1.293538E+00 −1.778968E+00 −9.958872E−02 −9.720777E+00 A45.280891E+00 7.147752E+00 2.668792E+00 −6.993487E−01 A6 −4.929357E+01−1.152802E+02 −1.053723E+02 −9.822777E+00 A8 −5.524670E+02 1.188148E+031.164018E+03 9.374187E+01 A10 2.181848E+04 −6.205622E+03 −7.629138E+03−4.377047E+02 A12 −2.298819E+05 2.212051E+04 3.098893E+04 1.160682E+03A14 1.176507E+06 −6.949962E+04 −7.777603E+04 −1.720966E+03 A16−3.006163E+06 1.681686E+05 1.168351E+05 1.259258E+03 A18 3.050941E+06−1.906600E+05 −9.146103E+04 −3.228384E+02 A20 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+000.000000E+00 0.000000E+00

In the second embodiment, the presentation of the aspheric surfaceequation is similar to that in the first embodiment. Besides, thedefinitions of parameters in following tables are similar to those inthe first embodiment, so the repetitive details will not be given here.

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable 3 and Table 4.

Second Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) InRS41 InRS42HVT41 HVT42 ODT % TDT % −0.02448 −0.00545 0.30907 0.42296 1.300020.70606 |f/f1| |f/f2| |f/f3| |f/f4| |f1/f2| |f2/f3| 0.32944 1.580250.26432 0.55346 4.79676 0.16726 ΣPPR/ ΣPPR ΣNPR |ΣNPR| ΣPP ΣNP f1/ΣPP1.84456 0.88290 2.08922 5.84043 −6.40396 −0.68735 f4/ΣNP IN12/f IN23/fIN34/f TP3/f TP4/f 0.37314 0.08827 0.10034 0.03781 0.14140 0.18018 InTLHOS HOS/HOI InS/HOS InTL/HOS ΣTP/InTL 1.34974 2.08923 2.03232 0.891960.64605 0.77815 (TP1 + IN12)/ (TP4 + IN34)/ IN23/(TP2 + TP2 TP3 TP1/TP2TP3/TP4 IN23 + TP3) 0.64830 1.54164 0.38889 0.78476 0.17240 |InRS41|/|InRS42|/ PhiA4/ PhiA4/ TP4 TP4 HVT42/HOI HVT42/HOS InTL HOI 0.10270.0229 0.4114 0.2024 1.0372 0.6809 PhiA4 PhiB PhiC PhiD RI9 PhiA4/HEP1.4 mm 1.8 mm 2.2 mm 2.5 mm 50% 1.9055 PSTA PLTA NSTA NLTA SSTA SLTA0.001 mm 0.001 mm 0.018 mm 0.012 mm −0.002 mm 0.001 mm

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable 3 and Table 4.

Values Related to Inflection Point of Second Embodiment (PrimaryReference Wavelength = 555 nm) HIF111 0.1522 HIF111/ 0.1481 SGI1110.0034 |SGI111|/ 0.0192 HOI (|SGI111| + TP1) HIF121 0.1456 HIF121/0.1417 SGI121 0.0074 |SGI121|/ 0.0408 HOI (|SGI121| + TP1) HIF211 0.2328HIF211/ 0.2264 SGI211 0.0389 |SGI211|/ 0.0796 HOI (|SGI211| + TP2)HIF311 0.2617 HIF311/ 0.2546 SGI311 −0.0900 |SGI311|/ 0.3249 HOI(|SGI311| + TP3) HIF321 0.2495 HIF321/ 0.2427 SGI321 −0.0673 |SGI321|/0.2646 HOI (|SGI321| + TP3) HIF411 0.1827 HIF411/ 0.1778 SGI411 0.0122|SGI411|/ 0.0486 HOI (|SGI411| + TP4) HIF421 0.2076 HIF421/ 0.2020SGI421 0.0250 |SGI421|/ 0.0950 HOI (|SGI421| + TP4)

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 3 and table 4.

Second Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.367 0.367 −0.00021 99.94% 0.175 209.80% 12 0.367 0.368 0.00053 100.14% 0.175 210.22% 210.363 0.369 0.00589 101.62% 0.450 81.92% 22 0.367 0.387 0.01919 105.22%0.450 85.90% 31 0.367 0.398 0.03014 108.20% 0.187 212.56% 32 0.367 0.3840.01694 104.61% 0.187 205.51% 41 0.367 0.368 0.00075 100.20% 0.238154.48% 42 0.367 0.371 0.00333 100.91% 0.238 155.56% ARS EHD ARS valueARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) % TP ARS/TP (%) 11 0.430 0.430 −0.00027  99.94%0.175 245.56% 12 0.393 0.395 0.00137 100.35% 0.175 225.46% 21 0.3630.369 0.00589 101.62% 0.450 81.92% 22 0.390 0.415 0.02497 106.40% 0.45092.22% 31 0.402 0.433 0.03104 107.71% 0.187 231.77% 32 0.433 0.4520.01854 104.28% 0.187 241.65% 41 0.503 0.519 0.01623 103.23% 0.238217.83% 42 0.697 0.732 0.03446 104.94% 0.238 307.07%

The Third Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D. FIG. 3A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the third embodiment of the presentinvention. FIG. 3B shows the longitudinal spherical aberration curves,astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of the opticalimage capturing system in order from left to right according to thethird embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the third embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 3D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the third embodiment of the present invention.As shown in FIG. 3A, in order along an optical axis from an object sideto an image side, the optical image capturing system 30 comprises afirst lens 310, an aperture 300 a second lens 320, a third lens 330, afourth lens 340, an IR-bandstop filter 370, an image plane 380 and animage-sensing device 390.

The first lens 310 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 312 of the first lens 310 is a convex surface and animage side 314 of the first lens 310 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 312 and the image side 314 of the first lens 310 areaspheric. Both of the object side 312 and the image side 314 of thefirst lens 310 has one inflection point.

The second lens 320 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 322 of the second lens 320 is a convex surfaceand an image side 324 of the second lens 320 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 322 and the image side 324 of the second lens 320 areaspheric. Both of the object side 322 and the image side 324 of thesecond lens 320 have one inflection point.

The third lens 330 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 332 of the third lens 330 is a concave surface and animage side 334 of the third lens 330 is a convex surface. Both of theobject side 332 and the image side 334 of the third lens 330 areaspheric. Both of the object side 332 and the image side 334 of thethird lens 330 has one inflection point.

The fourth lens 340 has negative refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 342 of the fourth lens 340 is convex a surfaceand an image side 344 of the fourth lens 340 is a concave surface. Bothof the object side 342 and the image side 344 of the fourth lens 340 areaspheric. Both of the object side 342 and the image side 344 of thefourth lens 340 has one inflection point.

The IR-bandstop filter 370 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 370is disposed between the fourth lens 340 and the image plane 380, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system30.

In the optical image capturing system 30 of the third embodiment, thefirst lens 310, the second lens 320 and the third lens 330 have positiverefractive power. The focal lengths of the first lens 310, the secondlens 320 and the third lens 330 are respectively expressed as f1, f2 andf3. The sum of the fp of all lenses with positive refractive power ofthe optical image capturing system 30 is ΣPP, and the followingcondition is satisfied: ΣPP=f1+f2+f3. Hereby, this configuration ishelpful to distribute the positive refractive power of the single lensto other lenses with positive refractive power in an appropriate way tosuppress the generation of noticeable aberrations in the propagatingprocess of the incident light in the optical image capturing system 30.

In the optical image capturing system 30 of the third embodiment, a sumof the focal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power is ΣNP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣNP=f4.

Please refer to the following Table 5 and Table 6.

The detailed data of the optical image capturing system 30 of the thirdembodiment is as shown in Table 5.

TABLE 5 Lens Parameter for the Third Embodiment f (focal length) =1.3310 mm; f/HEP = 2.0; HAF (half angle of view) = 37.5170 deg; tan(HAF)= 0.7678 Surface Thickness No. Curvature Radius (mm) Material 0 ObjectPlane infinity 1 First Lens 0.83935305 0.175 Plastic 2 0.779262354 0.0853 Aperture Plane 0.050 4 Second Lens 0.623234619 0.285 Plastic 5−11.00170615 0.123 6 Third Lens −0.364938387 0.175 Plastic 7−0.410676892 0.050 8 Fourth Lens 1.0692297 0.175 Plastic 9 0.8202495970.138 10 IR-bandstop Plane 0.210 BK7_SCHOTT Filter 11 Plane 0.442 12Image Plane Plane Surface No. Refractive Index Coefficient of DispersionFocal Length 0 1 1.584 29.88 238.535 2 3 4 1.545 55.96 1.089 5 6 1.64222.46 10.040 7 8 1.642 22.46 −7.515 9 10 1.517 64.13 11 12 ReferenceWavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position: the 1st surface with effectiveaperture radius = 0.370 mm; the 5th surface with effective apertureradius = 0.350 mm

TABLE 6 coefficients of aspheric surfaces of the third embodiment Table6: Aspheric Coefficients Surface No. 1 2 4 5 k −1.559670E+01−3.285895E+01 −3.283737E−01 −2.715604E+01 A4 2.960488E+00 5.065976E+00−7.176660E−01 3.614461E−01 A6 −8.781953E+01 −1.155499E+02 −5.059534E+01−7.045897E+01 A8 2.168917E+03 1.873961E+02 2.209574E+03 1.490315E+03 A10−3.808808E+04 4.119672E+04 −6.239210E+04 −2.783463E+04 A12 4.172494E+05−9.858251E+05 9.875788E+05 2.549608E+05 A14 −2.731712E+06 1.068435E+07−9.081709E+06 −1.110874E+06 A16 9.752197E+06 −5.730864E+07 4.401602E+072.625091E+06 A18 −1.459442E+07 1.229646E+08 −8.582584E+07 −4.104192E+06A20 1.874089E+01 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 Surface No. 6 78 9 k −1.097425E+00 −1.384866E+00 −9.000000E+01 −1.042971E+01 A42.214305E+00 −4.780890E+00 −5.438650E+00 −5.344102E+00 A6 −8.731178E+011.414294E+02 9.066051E+01 5.295146E+01 A8 2.841182E+03 −1.711255E+03−1.364068E+03 −4.481013E+02 A10 −5.162307E+04 9.272611E+03 1.266697E+042.489477E+03 A12 5.492447E+05 4.055356E+04 −7.011162E+04 −8.594433E+03A14 −3.054910E+06 −7.073760E+05 2.041429E+05 1.680325E+04 A167.919499E+06 2.992540E+06 −2.001005E+05 −1.520673E+04 A18 −6.822180E+06−4.349295E+06 −1.771508E+05 2.609779E+03 A20 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+000.000000E+00 0.000000E+00

In the third embodiment, the presentation of the aspheric surfaceformula is similar to that in the first embodiment. Furthermore, thedefinitions of parameters in following tables are equal to those in thefirst embodiment, so the repetitious details will not be given here.

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable 5 and Table 6.

Third Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) InRS41 InRS42HVT41 HVT42 ODT % TDT % −0.06700 −0.09200 0.20300 0.29700 1.300000.60800 |f/f1| |f/f2| |f/f3| |f/f4| |f1/f2| |f2/f3| 0.00558 1.222220.13257 0.17711 219.04040 0.10847 ΣPPR/ ΣPPR ΣNPR |ΣNPR| ΣPP ΣNP f1/ΣPP1.36037 0.17711 7.68084 249.66400 −7.51500 0.95542 f4/ΣNP IN12/f IN23/fIN34/f TP3/f TP4/f −0.14491 0.10143 0.09241 0.03757 0.13148 0.13148 InTLHOS HOS/HOI InS/HOS InTL/HOS ΣTP/InTL 1.11700 1.90700 1.85506 0.864180.58574 0.72516 (TP1 + IN12)/ (TP4 + IN34)/ IN23/(TP2 + TP2 TP3 TP1/TP2TP3/TP4 IN23 + TP3) 1.08772 1.28571 0.61404 1.00000 0.21098 |InRS41|/|InRS42|/ PhiA4/ PhiA4/ TP4 TP4 HVT42/HOI HVT42/HOS InTL HOI 0.38290.5257 0.2889 0.1557 1.0743 0.5837 PhiA4 PhiB PhiC PhiD RI9 PhiA4/HEP1.2 mm 1.6 mm 2.0 mm 2.3 mm 50% 1.8032 PSTA PLTA NSTA NLTA SSTA SLTA0.002 mm 0.008 mm 0.010 mm 0.003 mm 0.004 mm 0.004 mm

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable 5 and Table 6.

Values Related to Inflection Point of Third Embodiment (PrimaryReference Wavelength = 555 nm) HIF111 0.2660 HIF111/ 0.2588 SGI1110.0370 |SGI111|/ 0.1745 HOI (|SGI111| + TP1) HIF121 0.1940 HIF121/0.1887 SGI121 0.0200 |SGI121|/ 0.1026 HOI (|SGI121| + TP1) HIF211 0.2270HIF211/ 0.2208 SGI211 0.0380 |SGI211|/ 0.1176 HOI (|SGI211| + TP2)HIF221 0.3430 HIF221/ 0.3337 SGI221 −0.0490 |SGI221|/ 0.1467 HOI(|SGI221| + TP2) HIF311 0.2590 HIF311/ 0.2519 SGI311 −0.0860 |SGI311|/0.3295 HOI (|SGI311| + TP3) HIF321 0.2470 HIF321/ 0.2403 SGI321 −0.0730|SGI321|/ 0.2944 HOI (|SGI321| + TP3) HIF411 0.0950 HIF411/ 0.0924SGI411 0.0030 |SGI411|/ 0.0169 HOI (|SGI411| + TP4) HIF421 0.1440HIF421/ 0.1401 SGI421 0.0100 |SGI421|/ 0.0541 HOI (|SGI421| + TP4)

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 5 and table 6.

Third Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.333 0.337 0.00406101.22% 0.175 192.42% 12 0.333 0.334 0.00166 100.50% 0.175 191.05% 210.329 0.335 0.00624 101.90% 0.285 117.73% 22 0.333 0.339 0.00628 101.89%0.285 119.01% 31 0.333 0.358 0.02516 107.56% 0.175 204.48% 32 0.3330.353 0.02042 106.14% 0.175 201.77% 41 0.333 0.333 0.00028 100.08% 0.175190.26% 42 0.333 0.333 0.00021 100.06% 0.175 190.22% ARS EHD ARS valueARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) % TP ARS/TP (%) 11 0.370 0.374 0.004 101.14% 0.175213.83% 12 0.335 0.337 0.002 100.66% 0.175 192.77% 21 0.329 0.335 0.006101.90% 0.285 117.73% 22 0.350 0.358 0.008 102.36% 0.285 125.79% 310.366 0.392 0.026 107.17% 0.175 224.16% 32 0.401 0.423 0.022 105.49%0.175 241.46% 41 0.463 0.488 0.026 105.55% 0.175 278.99% 42 0.601 0.6600.060 109.93% 0.175 377.37%

The Fourth Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D. FIG. 4A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the fourth embodiment of thepresent invention. FIG. 4B shows the longitudinal spherical aberrationcurves, astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of theoptical image capturing system in order from left to right according tothe fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the fourth embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 4D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the fourth embodiment of the presentinvention. As shown in FIG. 4A, in order along an optical axis from anobject side to an image side, the optical image capturing system 40comprises a first lens 410, an aperture 400 a second lens 420, a thirdlens 430, a fourth lens 440, an IR-bandstop filter 470, an image plane480 and an image-sensing device 490.

The first lens 410 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 412 of the first lens 410 is a convex surface and animage side 414 of the first lens 410 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 412 and the image side 414 of the first lens 410 areaspheric. Both of the object side 412 and the image side 414 of thefirst lens 410 has one inflection point.

The second lens 420 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 422 of the second lens 420 is a convex surfaceand an image side 424 of the second lens 420 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 422 and the image side 424 of the second lens 420 areaspheric. The object side 422 of the second lens 420 has one inflectionpoint.

The third lens 430 has negative refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 432 of the third lens 430 is a concave surface and animage side 434 of the third lens 430 is a convex surface. Both of theobject side 432 and the image side 434 of the third lens 430 areaspheric. Both of the object side 432 and the image side 434 of thethird lens 430 has one inflection point.

The fourth lens 440 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 442 of the fourth lens 440 is convex a surfaceand an image side 444 of the fourth lens 440 is a concave surface. Bothof the object side 442 and the image side 444 of the fourth lens 440 areaspheric. Both of the object side 442 and the image side 444 of thefourth lens 440 has one inflection point.

The IR-bandstop filter 470 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 470is disposed between the fourth lens 440 and the image plane 480, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system40.

In the optical image capturing system 40 of the fourth embodiment, thefirst lens 410, the second lens 420 and the fourth lens 440 havepositive refractive power. The focal lengths of the first lens 410, thesecond lens 420 and the fourth lens 440 are respectively expressed asf1, f2 and f4. The sum of the fp of all lenses with positive refractivepower of the optical image capturing system 40 is ΣPP, and the followingcondition is satisfied: ΣPP=f1+f2+f4. Hereby, this configuration ishelpful to distribute the positive refractive power of the single lensto other lenses with positive refractive power in an appropriate way tosuppress the generation of noticeable aberrations in the propagatingprocess of the incident light in the optical image capturing system 40.

In the optical image capturing system 40 of the fourth embodiment, thefocal length of the third lens 430 are expressed as f3, a sum of thefocal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power is Σ NP, andthe following condition is satisfied: ΣNP=f3.

Please refer to the following Table 7 and Table 8.

TABLE 7 Lens Parameter for the fourth Embodiment f (focal length) =1.3290 mm; f/HEP = 2.0; HAF (half angle of view) = 37.5150 deg; tan(HAF)= 0.7677 Surface Thickness No. Curvature Radius (mm) Material 0 ObjectPlane infinity 1 First Lens 0.796358327 0.175 Plastic 2 0.7528942030.095 3 Aperture Plane 0.050 4 Second Lens 0.69002414 0.289 Plastic 5−5.470145447 0.127 6 Third Lens −0.375226684 0.175 Plastic 7−0.480949837 0.050 8 Fourth Lens 0.634776701 0.175 Plastic 9 0.6280504980.130 10 IR-bandstop Plane 0.210 BK7_SCHOTT Filter 11 Plane 0.446 12Image Plane Plane Surface No. Refractive Index Coefficient of DispersionFocal Length 0 1 1.584 29.88 47.93 2 3 4 1.545 55.96 1.14 5 6 1.64222.46 −7.54 7 8 1.642 22.46 9.92 9 10 1.517 64.13 11 12 ReferenceWavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position: the 1st surface with effectiveaperture radius = 0.390 mm; the 5th surface with effective apertureradius = 0.350 mm

TABLE 8 coefficients of aspheric surfaces of the fourth embodiment Table8: Aspheric Coefficients Surface No. 1 2 4 5 k −1.559070E+01−3.277696E+01 −1.338964E−01 −2.644155E+01 A4 3.931058E+00 6.407587E+00−7.455663E−01 −3.112638E−01 A6 −1.040453E+02 −1.208225E+02 −4.905075E+01−7.316173E+01 A8 2.548788E+03 −4.252993E+01 2.152711E+03 1.536768E+03A10 −4.367449E+04 4.938506E+04 −6.180943E+04 −3.005936E+04 A124.647813E+05 −1.098966E+06 9.823348E+05 3.189116E+05 A14 −2.944070E+061.140707E+07 −9.044375E+06 −1.714189E+06 A16 1.013712E+07 −5.908647E+074.382259E+07 4.420446E+06 A18 −1.459442E+07 1.229646E+08 −8.582584E+07−4.104192E+06 A20 1.874407E+01 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00Surface No. 6 7 8 9 k −9.444825E−01 −8.569895E−01 −2.727253E+01−1.028315E+01 A4 1.474769E+00 −7.584700E+00 −4.999799E+00 −3.743632E+00A6 −2.913984E+01 2.026719E+02 6.751631E+01 2.859772E+01 A8 1.861605E+02−2.697091E+03 −9.280684E+02 −2.281186E+02 A10 −1.107176E+03 1.921504E+047.954824E+03 1.278101E+03 A12 8.405416E+04 −1.663989E+04 −3.875688E+04−4.522034E+03 A14 −9.804138E+05 −5.393357E+05 8.940373E+04 9.165264E+03A16 4.316120E+06 2.803448E+06 −2.453740E+04 −9.062636E+03 A18−6.822180E+06 −4.349295E+06 −1.771508E+05 2.609779E+03 A20 0.000000E+000.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00

In the fourth embodiment, the presentation of the aspheric surfaceformula is similar to that in the first embodiment. Furthermore, thedefinitions of parameters in following tables are equal to those in thefirst embodiment, so the repetitious details will not be given here.

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable 7 and Table 8.

Fourth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) InRS41 InRS42HVT41 HVT42 ODT % TDT % −0.04300 −0.06200 0.26100 0.34000 1.305000.49200 |f/f1| |f/f2| |f/f3| |f/f4| |f1/f2| |f2/f3| 0.02773 1.164770.17617 0.13399 42.00876 0.15125 ΣPPR/ ΣPPR ΣNPR |ΣNPR| ΣPP ΣNP f1/ΣPP1.32648 0.17617 7.52969 58.99200 −7.54400 0.81252 f4/ΣNP IN12/f IN23/fIN34/f TP3/f TP4/f −0.15125 0.10910 0.09556 0.03762 0.13168 0.13168 InTLHOS HOS/HOI InS/HOS InTL/HOS ΣTP/InTL 1.13600 1.92300 1.87062 0.859590.59074 0.71655 (TP1 + IN12)/ (TP4 + IN34)/ IN23/(TP2 + TP2 TP3 TP1/TP2TP3/TP4 IN23 + TP3) 1.10727 1.28571 0.60554 1.00000 0.21489 |InRS41|/|InRS42|/ PhiA4/ PhiA4/ TP4 TP4 HVT42/HOI HVT42/HOS InTL HOI 0.24570.3543 0.3307 0.1768 1.1004 0.6080 PhiA4 PhiB PhiC PhiD RI9 PhiA4/HEP1.25 mm 1.65 mm 2.05 mm 2.35 mm 50% 1.8811 PSTA PLTA NSTA NLTA SSTA SLTA0.00007 0.004 mm 0.008 mm −0.00001 mm 0.005 mm 0.005 mm mm

The following values for the conditions can be obtained from the data inTable

Values Related to Inflection Point of Fourth Embodiment (PrimaryReference Wavelength = 555 nm) HIF111 0.3010 HIF111/ 0.2928 SGI1110.0510 |SGI111|/ 0.2257 HOI (|SGI111| + TP1) HIF121 0.2200 HIF121/0.2140 SGI121 0.0280 |SGI121|/ 0.1379 HOI (|SGI121| + TP1) HIF211 0.2190HIF211/ 0.2130 SGI211 0.0320 |SGI211|/ 0.0997 HOI (|SGI211| + TP2)HIF311 0.2600 HIF311/ 0.2529 SGI311 −0.0870 |SGI311|/ 0.3321 HOI(|SGI311| + TP3) HIF321 0.2570 HIF321/ 0.2500 SGI321 −0.0750 |SGI321|/0.3000 HOI (|SGI321| + TP3) HIF411 0.1210 HIF411/ 0.1177 SGI411 0.0090|SGI411|/ 0.0489 HOI (|SGI411| + TP4) HIF421 0.1620 HIF421/ 0.1576SGI421 0.0160 |SGI421|/ 0.0838 HOI (|SGI421| + TP4)

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 7 and table 8.

Fourth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.332 0.339 0.00620101.87% 0.175 193.46% 12 0.332 0.336 0.00327 100.98% 0.175 191.78% 210.321 0.326 0.00425 101.32% 0.289 112.60% 22 0.332 0.342 0.00955 102.87%0.289 118.23% 31 0.332 0.360 0.02753 108.28% 0.175 205.65% 32 0.3320.353 0.02089 106.28% 0.175 201.85% 41 0.332 0.333 0.00065 100.20% 0.175190.29% 42 0.332 0.334 0.00172 100.52% 0.175 190.90% ARS EHD ARS valueARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) % TP ARS/TP (%) 11 0.390 0.397 0.007 101.82% 0.175226.92% 12 0.338 0.341 0.003 100.82% 0.175 194.64% 21 0.321 0.326 0.004101.32% 0.289 112.60% 22 0.350 0.362 0.012 103.55% 0.289 125.32% 310.368 0.397 0.029 107.80% 0.175 226.72% 32 0.407 0.429 0.022 105.43%0.175 244.96% 41 0.486 0.511 0.025 105.08% 0.175 291.94% 42 0.625 0.6830.057 109.17% 0.175 390.18%

The Fifth Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 5A, 5B, 5C and 5D. FIG. 5A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the fifth embodiment of the presentinvention. FIG. 5B shows the longitudinal spherical aberration curves,astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of the opticalimage capturing system in order from left to right according to thefifth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the fifth embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 5D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the fifth embodiment of the present invention.As shown in FIG. 5A, in order along an optical axis from an object sideto an image side, the optical image capturing system 50 comprises afirst lens 510, an aperture 500 a second lens 520, a third lens 530, afourth lens 540, an IR-bandstop filter 570, an image plane 580 and animage-sensing device 590.

The first lens 510 has negative refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 512 of the first lens 510 is a convex surface and animage side 514 of the first lens 510 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 512 and the image side 514 of the first lens 510 areaspheric. The object side 512 of the first lens 510 has one inflectionpoint.

The second lens 520 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 522 of the second lens 520 is a convex surfaceand an image side 524 of the second lens 520 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 522 and the image side 524 of the second lens 520 areaspheric.

The third lens 530 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 532 of the third lens 530 is a concave surface and animage side 534 of the third lens 530 is a convex surface. Both of theobject side 532 and the image side 534 of the third lens 530 areaspheric. The image side 534 of the third lens 530 has one inflectionpoint.

The fourth lens 540 has negative refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 542 of the fourth lens 540 is convex a surfaceand an image side 544 of the fourth lens 540 is a concave surface. Bothof the object side 542 and the image side 544 of the fourth lens 540 areaspheric. Both of the object side 542 and the image side 544 of thefourth lens 540 has one inflection point.

The IR-bandstop filter 570 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 570is disposed between the fourth lens 540 and the image plane 580, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system50.

In the optical image capturing system 50 of the fifth embodiment, thesecond lens 520 and the third lens 530 have positive refractive power.The focal lengths of the second lens 520 and the third lens 530 arerespectively expressed as f2 and f3. The sum of the fp of all lenseswith positive refractive power of the optical image capturing system 50is ΣPP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣPP=f2+f3. Hereby,this configuration is helpful to distribute the positive refractivepower of the single lens to other lenses with positive refractive powerin an appropriate way to suppress the generation of noticeableaberrations in the propagating process of the incident light in theoptical image capturing system 50.

In the optical image capturing system 50 of the fifth embodiment, a sumof the focal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power is ΣNP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣNP=f1+f4.

Please refer to the following Table 9 and Table 10.

TABLE 9 Lens Parameter for the fifth Embodiment f (focal length) = 1.038mm; f/HEP = 2.0; HAF (half angle of view) = 40.2351 deg; tan (HAF) =0.8461 Surface No. Curvature Radius Thickness (mm) Material 0 Object1E+18 600 1 First Lens 1.318838134 0.151 Plastic 2 1.199785426 0.080 3Aperture 1E+18 −0.033 4 Second Lens 0.888008072 0.266 Plastic 5−0.836283021 −0.021 6 1E+18 0.195 7 Third Lens −0.230724801 0.179Plastic 8 −0.252833943 0.023 9 Fourth Lens 0.961626482 0.161 Plastic 100.584762783 0.141 11 IR-bandstop 1E+18 0.145 BK_7 Filter 12 1E+18 0.33613 1E+18 0.000 14 Image Plane 1E+18 0.000 Surface No. Refractive IndexCoefficient of Dispersion Focal Length 0 1 1.661 20.364 −40.448 2 3 41.545 55.961 0.834 5 6 7 1.545 55.961 2.594 8 9 1.661 20.364 −2.697 1011 1.517 64.13 12 13 14 Reference Wavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position:the 6st surface with effective aperture radius = 0.261 mm; the 10thsurface with effective aperture radius = 0.510 mm

TABLE 10 coefficients of aspheric surfaces of the fifth embodiment Table10: Aspheric Coefficients Surface No. 1 2 4 5 k −1.931550E+01−5.944256E−01 2.899251E+00 −1.652042E−01 A4 4.751055E−02 1.985239E−012.378219E+00 −4.531571E+00 A6 −7.369787E−01 1.141525E+00 −3.409528E+024.125321E+02 A8 −1.464233E+01 1.320343E+02 2.653552E+04 −3.976522E+04A10 −3.898305E+01 1.845076E+03 −1.305270E+06 2.168067E+06 A121.163348E+03 −1.337007E+04 4.201857E+07 −7.185274E+07 A14 2.325617E+04−4.098113E+04 −8.838875E+08 1.461296E+09 A16 −1.646115E+05 4.413052E+061.172744E+10 −1.772179E+10 A18 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 −8.871474E+101.171847E+11 A20 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 2.903080E+11 −3.238002E+11Surface No. 7 8 9 10 k −2.129767E+00 −3.535712E+00 −2.991367E+02−1.652397E+00 A4 −9.144793E+00 −3.994793E+01 −3.470143E+00 −1.319941E+01A6 −1.078446E+03 1.892532E+03 1.603843E+02 1.852286E+02 A8 9.151087E+04−6.900259E+04 −6.615281E+03 −2.230679E+03 A10 −4.008615E+06 1.677337E+061.514333E+05 1.958918E+04 A12 1.079904E+08 −2.670001E+07 −2.187693E+06−1.240236E+05 A14 −1.835847E+09 2.744293E+08 2.010551E+07 5.484178E+05A16 1.919580E+10 −1.747522E+09 −1.140136E+08 −1.594466E+06 A18−1.123167E+11 6.253395E+09 3.628560E+08 2.709933E+06 A20 2.802708E+11−9.593353E+09 −4.954465E+08 −2.019570E+06

In the fifth embodiment, the presentation of the aspheric surfaceformula is similar to that in the first embodiment. Furthermore, thedefinitions of parameters in following tables are equal to those in thefirst embodiment, so the repetitious details will not be given here.

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 9 and table 10.

Fifth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) InRS41 InRS42HVT41 HVT42 ODT % TDT % −0.05607 −0.05495 0.19248 0.29032 4.660881.96699 |f/f1| |f/f2| |f/f3| |f/f4| |f1/f2| |f2/f3| 0.02566 1.244930.40010 0.38484 48.51187 0.32138 ΣPPR/ ΣPPR ΣNPR |ΣNPR| ΣPP ΣNP f1/ΣPP1.67069 0.38484 4.34120 −37.01941 −2.69714 1.09260 f4/ΣNP IN12/f IN23/fIN34/f TP3/f TP4/f 1.00000 0.04615 0.16743 0.02211 0.17254 0.15490 InTLHOS HOS/HOI InS/HOS InTL/HOS ΣTP/InTL 1.00103 1.62276 1.74490 0.857390.61687 0.75561 (TP1 + IN12)/ (TP4 + IN34)/ IN23/(TP2 + TP2 TP3 TP1/TP2TP3/TP4 IN23 + TP3) 0.74891 1.02590 0.56852 1.11389 0.28102 |InRS41|/|InRS42|/ PhiA4/ PhiA4/ TP4 TP4 HVT42/HOI HVT42/HOS InTL HOI 0.34880.3418 0.3122 0.1789 1.0189 1.0968 PhiA4 PhiB PhiC PhiD RI9 PhiA4/HEP1.02 mm 1.4026 mm 1.4026 mm 1.8 mm 55% 0.5197 PSTA PLTA NSTA NLTA SSTASLTA −0.012 −0.007 mm 0.023 0.019 mm −0.021 mm −0.014 mm mm mm

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 9 and table 10.

Values Related to Inflection Point of Fifth Embodiment (PrimaryReference Wavelength = 555 nm) HIF111 0.3482 HIF111/ 0.3744 SGI1110.0368 |SGI111|/ 0.1960 HOI (|SGI111| + TP1) HIF321 0.2908 HIF321/0.3126 SGI321 −0.1685 |SGI321|/ 0.4848 HOI (|SGI321| + TP3) HIF4110.0872 HIF411/ 0.0937 SGI411 0.0026 |SGI411|/ 0.0160 HOI (|SGI411| +TP4) HIF421 0.1344 HIF421/ 0.1445 SGI421 0.0119 |SGI421|/ 0.0689 HOI(|SGI421| + TP4)

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 9 and table 10.

Fifth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.260 0.260 0.00028100.11% 0.151 172.33% 12 0.260 0.263 0.00278 101.07% 0.151 173.99% 210.260 0.264 0.00438 101.68% 0.266  99.52% 22 0.260 0.267 0.00685 102.64%0.266 100.45% 31 0.260 0.312 0.05237 120.15% 0.179 174.35% 32 0.2600.300 0.04057 115.61% 0.179 167.77% 41 0.260 0.259 −0.00067  99.74%0.161 161.22% 42 0.260 0.260 0.00049 100.19% 0.161 161.94% ARS EHD ARSvalue ARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) % TP ARS/TP (%) 11 0.357 0.360 0.002 100.61%0.151 238.18% 12 0.275 0.280 0.005 101.83% 0.151 185.36% 21 0.264 0.2700.006 102.18% 0.266 101.62% 22 0.267 0.274 0.008 102.85% 0.266 103.35%31 0.269 0.326 0.057 121.22% 0.179 181.76% 32 0.335 0.407 0.072 121.54%0.179 227.25% 41 0.389 0.410 0.021 105.32% 0.161 255.08% 42 0.510 0.5320.022 104.39% 0.161 331.12%

The Sixth Embodiment

Please refer to FIGS. 6A, 6B, 6C and 6D. FIG. 6A is a schematic view ofan optical image capturing system of the sixth embodiment of the presentinvention. FIG. 6B shows the longitudinal spherical aberration curves,astigmatic field curves, and optical distortion curve of the opticalimage capturing system in order from left to right according to thesixth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6C is a transverseaberration diagram of the longest operation wavelength and the shortestoperation wavelength for tangential fan and sagittal fan, in which thelongest operation wavelength and the shortest operation wavelength passthrough an margin of the entrance pupil and strike at the position of0.7 field of view on the image plane, according to the sixth embodimentof the present invention. FIG. 6D is a numerical diagram of relativeilluminance at each field of view on the image plane for an opticalimage capturing system of the sixth embodiment of the present invention.As shown in FIG. 6A, in order along an optical axis from an object sideto an image side, the optical image capturing system 60 comprises afirst lens 610, an aperture 600 a second lens 620, a third lens 630, afourth lens 640, an IR-bandstop filter 670, an image plane 680 and animage-sensing device 690.

The first lens 610 has negative refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 612 of the first lens 610 is a convex surface and animage side 614 of the first lens 610 is a concave surface. Both of theobject side 612 and the image side 614 of the first lens 610 areaspheric.

The second lens 620 has positive refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 622 of the second lens 620 is a convex surfaceand an image side 624 of the second lens 620 is a convex surface. Bothof the object side 622 and the image side 624 of the second lens 620 areaspheric. The image side 624 of the second lens 620 has one inflectionpoint.

The third lens 630 has positive refractive power and is made of plastic.An object side 632 of the third lens 630 is a concave surface and animage side 634 of the third lens 630 is a convex surface. Both of theobject side 632 and the image side 634 of the third lens 630 areaspheric. Both of the object side 632 and the image side 634 of thethird lens 630 has one inflection point.

The fourth lens 640 has negative refractive power and is made ofplastic. An object side 642 of the fourth lens 640 is convex a surfaceand an image side 644 of the fourth lens 640 is a concave surface. Bothof the object side 642 and the image side 644 of the fourth lens 640 areaspheric. Both of the object side 642 and the image side 644 of thefourth lens 640 has one inflection point.

The IR-bandstop filter 670 is made of glass. The IR-bandstop filter 670is disposed between the fourth lens 640 and the image plane 680, anddoes not affect the focal length of the optical image capturing system60.

In the optical image capturing system 60 of the sixth embodiment, thesecond lens 620 and the third lens 630 have positive refractive power.The focal lengths of the second lens 620 and the third lens 630 arerespectively expressed as f2 and f3. The sum of the fp of all lenseswith positive refractive power of the optical image capturing system 60is ΣPP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣPP=f2+f3. Hereby,this configuration is helpful to distribute the positive refractivepower of the single lens to other lenses with positive refractive powerin an appropriate way to suppress the generation of noticeableaberrations in the propagating process of the incident light in theoptical image capturing system 60.

In the optical image capturing system 60 of the sixth embodiment, a sumof the focal lengths of all lenses with negative refractive power is ΣNP, and the following condition is satisfied: ΣNP=f1+f4.

Please refer to the following Table 11 and Table 12.

TABLE 11 Lens Parameter for the fifth Embodiment f(focal length) =0.9946 mm; f/HEP = 2.0; HAF(half angle of view) = 41.2533 deg; tan(HAF)= 0.8771 Surface No. Curvature Radius Thickness (mm) Material 0 Object1E+18 600 1 First Lens 7.46846478 0.151 Plastic 2 4.317793429 0.088 3Aperture 1E+18 −0.028 4 Second Lens 0.935843227 0.239 Plastic 5−0.933344075 0.010 6 1E+18 0.157 7 Third Lens −0.322918565 0.227 Plastic8 −0.210895065 0.023 9 Fourth Lens 4.506707493 0.150 Plastic 100.414840736 0.090 11 IR-bandstop 1E+18 0.145 BK_7 Filter 12 1E+18 0.38813 1E+18 0.000 14 Image Plane 1E+18 0.000 Surface No. Refractive IndexCoefficient of Dispersion Focal Length 0 1 1.661 20.364 −15.642 2 3 41.545 55.961 0.896 5 6 7 1.545 55.961 0.648 8 9 1.661 20.364 −0.695 1011 1.517 64.13 12 13 14 Reference Wavelength: 555 nm; Shield Position:the 6st surface with effective aperture radius = 0.265 mm

TABLE 12 coefficients of aspheric surfaces of the sixth embodiment Table12: Aspheric Coefficients Surface No. 1 2 4 5 k 2.572381E+022.223058E+02 1.904462E+00 −2.099831E+00 A4 4.569267E−01 1.680923E+001.808880E+00 −2.384445E+00 A6 −1.346296E+00 9.798959E+00 −1.079205E+022.286660E+01 A8 2.121674E+01 −2.674219E+01 5.449604E+03 −5.307268E+03A10 6.617868E+01 −4.885509E+02 −1.968503E+05 2.435205E+05 A12−6.722692E+02 5.965613E+03 4.181697E+06 −4.972932E+06 A14 −1.036815E+041.437029E+05 −4.660329E+07 4.795142E+07 A16 6.804141E+04 −8.308662E+052.112434E+08 −1.745943E+08 A18 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+000.000000E+00 A20 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00 0.000000E+00Surface No. 7 8 9 10 k −1.545752E+00 −4.669869E+00 3.643159E+01−1.345056E+01 A4 −5.986753E+00 −2.322068E+01 −4.368014E+00 −4.463185E+00A6 −5.532782E+01 4.773595E+02 1.821189E+01 3.295984E+01 A8 7.180106E+03−7.713606E+03 −2.098946E+02 −2.343704E+02 A10 −3.046991E+05 8.493639E+047.784101E+02 1.007289E+03 A12 6.619474E+06 −5.844502E+05 1.003698E+02−2.254853E+03 A14 −6.258719E+07 2.371643E+06 −3.542943E+03 1.303148E+03A16 1.680202E+07 −4.384066E+06 −4.678203E+04 4.409045E+02 A183.817877E+09 1.181835E+06 −1.299365E+06 1.202425E+04 A20 −1.909590E+10−1.795783E+06 7.031548E+06 −2.133442E+04

In the sixth embodiment, the presentation of the aspheric surfaceformula is similar to that in the first embodiment. Furthermore, thedefinitions of parameters in following tables are equal to those in thefirst embodiment, so the repetitious details will not be given here.

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 11 and table 12.

Sixth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) InRS41 InRS42HVT41 HVT42 ODT % TDT % −0.08490 −0.03269 0.11758 0.30304 4.948352.97889 |f/f1| |f/f2| |f/f3| |f/f4| |f1/f2| |f2/f3| 0.06358 1.110171.53450 1.43093 17.45990 1.38222 ΣPPR/ ΣPPR ΣNPR |ΣNPR| ΣPP ΣNP f1/ΣPP2.70825 1.43093 1.89264 −14.09806 −0.69506 1.10952 f4/ΣNP IN12/f IN23/fIN34/f TP3/f TP4/f 1.00000 0.06098 0.16739 0.02309 0.22858 0.15043 InTLHOS HOS/HOI InS/HOS InTL/HOS ΣTP/InTL 1.01692 1.63914 1.76252 0.853990.62040 0.75407 (TP1 + IN12)/ (TP4 + IN34)/ IN23/(TP2 + TP2 TP3 TP1/TP2TP3/TP4 IN23 + TP3) 0.88517 0.75909 0.63138 1.51957 0.26308 |InRS41|/|InRS42|/ PhiA4/ PhiA4/ TP4 TP4 HVT42/HOI HVT42/HOS InTL HOI 0.56750.2185 0.3258 0.1849 1.0129 1.1075 PhiA4 PhiB PhiC PhiD RI9 PhiA4/HEP1.030 mm 1.4026 mm 1.4026 mm 1.8 mm 50% 2.0712 PSTA PLTA NSTA NLTA SSTASLTA −0.017 mm −0.015 mm 0.006 0.002 mm 0.009 mm 0.010 mm mm

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 11 and table 12.

Values Related to Inflection Point of Sixth Embodiment (PrimaryReference Wavelength = 555 nm) HIF221 0.2508 HIF221/ 0.2696 SGI221−0.0441 |SGI221|/ 0.1557 HOI (|SGI221| + TP2) HIF311 0.2356 HIF311/0.2533 SGI311 −0.0934 |SGI311|/ 0.2913 HOI (|SGI311| + TP3) HIF3210.2839 HIF321/ 0.3053 SGI321 −0.1545 |SGI321|/ 0.4046 HOI (|SGI321| +TP3) HIF411 0.0669 HIF411/ 0.0719 SGI411 0.0004 |SGI411|/ 0.0027 HOI(|SGI411| + TP4) HIF421 0.1329 HIF421/ 0.1429 SGI421 0.0157 |SGI421|/0.0952 HOI (|SGI421| + TP4)

The numerical data related to the length of the outline curve is shownaccording to table 11 and table 12.

Sixth Embodiment (Primary reference wavelength = 555 nm) ARE ½(HEP) AREvalue ARE − ½(HEP) 2(ARE/HEP) % TP ARE/TP (%) 11 0.249 0.249 0.00011100.05% 0.151 165.11% 12 0.249 0.250 0.00126 100.51% 0.151 165.87% 210.249 0.252 0.00349 101.40% 0.239 105.66% 22 0.249 0.254 0.00542 102.18%0.239 106.47% 31 0.249 0.276 0.02654 110.66% 0.227 121.20% 32 0.2490.283 0.03437 113.80% 0.227 124.65% 41 0.249 0.249 0.00044 100.18% 0.150166.73% 42 0.249 0.251 0.00239 100.96% 0.150 168.03% ARS EHD ARS valueARS − EHD (ARS/EHD) % TP ARS/TP (%) 11 0.376 0.377 0.001 100.25% 0.151250.12% 12 0.284 0.287 0.003 101.19% 0.151 190.21% 21 0.258 0.261 0.003101.28% 0.239 109.19% 22 0.269 0.276 0.007 102.53% 0.239 115.45% 310.276 0.308 0.032 111.50% 0.227 135.60% 32 0.339 0.404 0.065 119.09%0.227 177.65% 41 0.382 0.407 0.025 106.58% 0.150 272.33% 42 0.515 0.5310.017 103.21% 0.150 355.13%

Although the present invention is disclosed via the aforementionedembodiments, those embodiments do not serve to limit the scope of thepresent invention. A person skilled in the art may perform variousalterations and modifications to the present invention without departingfrom the spirit and the scope of the present invention. Hence, the scopeof the present invention should be defined by the following appendedclaims.

Despite the fact that the present invention is specifically presentedand illustrated with reference to the exemplary embodiments thereof, itshould be obvious to a person skilled in the art that, variousmodifications to the forms and details of the present invention may beperformed without departing from the scope and spirit of the presentinvention defined by the following claims and equivalents thereof.

What is claimed is:
 1. An optical image capturing system, in order alongan optical axis from an object side to an image side, comprising: afirst lens with refractive power; a second lens with positive refractivepower; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractivepower; and an image plane, wherein the optical image capturing systemcomprises the four lenses with refractive power, at least one lens amongthe third lens to the fourth lens has positive refractive power, focallengths of the four lenses are expressed as f1, f2, f3 and f4,respectively, a focal length of the optical image capturing system isdenoted by f, and an entrance pupil diameter of the optical imagecapturing system is denoted by HEP, a distance on the optical axis froman object side of the first lens to the image plane is denoted by HOS, adistance on the optical axis from the object side of the first lens toan image side of the fourth lens is denoted by InTL, a maximum effectivediameter of the image side of the fourth lens is denoted by PhiA4, witha point on any one surface of any one of the four lenses which crossesthe optical axis defined as a first starting point, a length of anoutline curve from the first starting point to a first coordinate pointof vertical height with a distance from the optical axis to a halfentrance pupil diameter on the surface along an outline of the surfaceis denoted by ARE, and the following conditions are satisfied:1.2≤f/HEP≤10; 0.5≤HOS/f≤7; 0<PhiA4/InTL≤1.1 and 0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0. 2.The optical image capturing system of claim 1, wherein a distance on theoptical axis between the first lens and the second lens is denoted byIN12, a distance on the optical axis between the second lens and thethird lens is denoted by IN23, and the following condition is satisfied:IN23>IN12.
 3. The optical image capturing system of claim 1, wherein TVdistortion of the optical image capturing system when forming image isdenoted by TDT, a maximum image height of visible spectrum perpendicularto the optical axis on the image plane is denoted by HOI, a lateralaberration of the longest operation wavelength of visible light of apositive tangential fan of the optical image capturing system passingthrough a margin of an entrance pupil and incident at the image plane by0.7 HOI is denoted by PLTA, a lateral aberration of the shortestoperation wavelength of visible light of the positive tangential fan ofthe optical image capturing system passing through the margin of theentrance pupil and incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOI is denoted byPSTA, a lateral aberration of the longest operation wavelength ofvisible light of a negative tangential fan of the optical imagecapturing system passing through the margin of the entrance pupil andincident at the image plane by 0.7 HOI is denoted by NLTA, a lateralaberration of the shortest operation wavelength of visible light of thenegative tangential fan of the optical image capturing system passingthrough the margin of the entrance pupil and incident at the image planeby 0.7 HOI is denoted by NSTA, a lateral aberration of the longestoperation wavelength of visible light of a sagittal fan of the opticalimage capturing system passing through the margin of the entrance pupiland incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOI is denoted by SLTA, a lateralaberration of the shortest operation wavelength of visible light of thesagittal fan of the optical image capturing system passing through themargin of the entrance pupil and incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOIis denoted by SSTA, and the following conditions are satisfied: PLTA≤100μm; PSTA≤100 μm; NLTA≤100 μm; NSTA≤100 μm; SLTA≤100 μm; and SSTA≤100 μm;|TDT|<100%.
 4. The optical image capturing system of claim 1, wherein anmaximum effective half diameter of any one surface on the single lensamong the four lenses is denoted by EHD, with a point on any one surfaceof any one of the four lenses which crosses the optical axis defined asthe first starting point, the maximum effective half diameter positionof the surface along the outline of the surface defined as a first finalpoint, a length of outline curve from the first starting point to thefirst final point is ARS, and the following condition is satisfied:0.1≤ARS/EHD≤2.0.
 5. The optical image capturing system of claim 1,wherein a half maximum angle of view of the optical image capturingsystem is denoted by HAF, and the following condition is satisfied: 0deg<HAF≤50 deg.
 6. The optical image capturing system of claim 1,wherein with a point on the object side of the fourth lens which crossesthe optical axis defined as a second starting point, a length of anoutline curve from the second starting point to a second coordinatepoint of vertical height with a distance from the optical axis to thehalf entrance pupil diameter on the surface along an outline of thesurface is denoted by ARE41, with a point on the image side of thefourth lens which crosses the optical axis defined as a third startingpoint, a length of an outline curve from the third starting point to athird coordinate point of vertical height with a distance from theoptical axis to the half entrance pupil diameter on the surface along anoutline of the surface is denoted by ARE42, a thickness of the fourthlens on the optical axis is denoted by TP4, and the following conditionsare satisfied: 0.5≤ARE41/TP4≤20; and 0.5≤ARE42/TP4≤20.
 7. The opticalimage capturing system of claim 1, wherein the following condition issatisfied: 0<PhiA4/HEP≤3.0.
 8. The optical image capturing system ofclaim 1, wherein the optical image capturing system has a maximum imageheight HOI which is perpendicular to the optical axis on the imageplane, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<PhiA4/2HOI≤1.0. 9.The optical image capturing system of claim 1, further comprising anaperture, wherein a distance from the aperture to the image plane on theoptical axis is denoted by InS, the optical image capturing system has amaximum image height HOI which is perpendicular to the optical axis onthe image plane and the following conditions are satisfied:0.2≤InS/HOS≤1.1, and 0.5<HOS/HOI≤1.8.
 10. An optical image capturingsystem, in order along an optical axis from an object side to an imageside, comprising: a first lens with refractive power; a second lens withpositive refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourthlens with refractive power; an image plane; and a first positioningelement comprising a holder, wherein the holder is in a hollow shape andopaque, and comprises a cylinder and a basement connected with eachother; the cylinder is configured to accommodate the first lens to thefourth lens; the basement is between the fourth lens and the imageplane; an outer periphery of the basement is greater than an outerperiphery of the cylinder; and a maximum value of the minimum sidelength of the basement perpendicular to the optical axis is denoted byPhiD; wherein, at least one lens among the third lens to the fourth lenshas positive refractive power, focal lengths of the four lenses areexpressed as f1, f2, f3 and f4, respectively, a focal length of theoptical image capturing system is denoted by f and an entrance pupildiameter of the optical image capturing system is denoted by HEP, adistance on the optical axis from an object side of the first lens tothe image plane is denoted by HOS, a distance on the optical axis fromthe object side of the first lens to an image side of the fourth lens isdenoted by InTL, with a point on any one surfaces of any one of the fourlenses which crosses the optical axis defined as a first starting point,a length of an outline curve from the first starting point to a firstcoordinate point of vertical height with a distance from the opticalaxis to the half entrance pupil diameter on the surface along an outlineof the surface is denoted by ARE, and the following conditions aresatisfied: 1.2≤f/HEP≤10; 0.5≤HOS/f≤7; 0 mm<PhiD≤2.0 mm and0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0.
 11. The optical image capturing system of claim 10,a maximum effective diameter of the image side of the fourth lens isdenoted by PhiA4, and the following condition is satisfied:0<PhiA4/InTL≤1.1.
 12. The optical image capturing system of claim 10,wherein a distance on the optical axis between the first lens and thesecond lens is denoted by IN12, a distance on the optical axis betweenthe second lens and the third lens is denoted by IN23, a distance on theoptical axis between the third lens and the fourth lens is denoted byIN34 and the following conditions are satisfied: IN23>IN12 andIN23>IN34.
 13. The optical image capturing system of claim 10, whereinan object side of the second lens on the optical axis is a convexsurface and an image side of the second lens on the optical axis is aconvex surface.
 14. The optical image capturing system of claim 10,thicknesses of the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens onthe optical axis are respectively expressed as TP2, TP3 and TP4 and thefollowing conditions are satisfied: TP2>TP3 and TP2>TP4.
 15. The opticalimage capturing system of claim 10, at least one surface of at least twolenses among the first lens to the fourth lens has at least oneinflection point.
 16. The optical image capturing system of claim 10,wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0<PhiA4/HEP≤3.0.
 17. Theoptical image capturing system of claim 10, wherein the optical imagecapturing system has a maximum image height HOI which is perpendicularto the optical axis on the image plane, and the following condition issatisfied: 0<PhiA4/2HOI≤1.0.
 18. The optical image capturing system ofclaim 10, wherein the following condition is satisfied: 0 mm<PhiA4≤1.4mm.
 19. The optical image capturing system of claim 10, a maximum imageheight of visible spectrum perpendicular to the optical axis on theimage plane is denoted by HOI, a relative illumination on the maximumimage height HOI of the optical image capturing system is denoted by RI,a lateral aberration of the longest operation wavelength of visiblelight of a positive tangential fan of the optical image capturing systempassing through a margin of an entrance pupil and incident at the imageplane by 0.7 HOI is denoted by PLTA, a lateral aberration of theshortest operation wavelength of visible light of the positivetangential fan of the optical image capturing system passing through themargin of the entrance pupil and incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOIis denoted by PSTA, a lateral aberration of the longest operationwavelength of visible light of a negative tangential fan of the opticalimage capturing system passing through the margin of the entrance pupiland incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOI is denoted by NLTA, a lateralaberration of the shortest operation wavelength of visible light of thenegative tangential fan of the optical image capturing system passingthrough the margin of the entrance pupil and incident at the image planeby 0.7 HOI is denoted by NSTA, a lateral aberration of the longestoperation wavelength of visible light of a sagittal fan of the opticalimage capturing system passing through the margin of the entrance pupiland incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOI is denoted by SLTA, a lateralaberration of the shortest operation wavelength of visible light of thesagittal fan of the optical image capturing system passing through themargin of the entrance pupil and incident at the image plane by 0.7 HOIis denoted by SSTA, and the following conditions are satisfied: PLTA≤100μm; PSTA≤100 μm; NLTA≤100 μm; NSTA≤100 μm; SLTA≤100 μm; and SSTA≤100 μm;and 10%≤RI<100%.
 20. An optical image capturing system, in order alongan optical axis from an object side to an image side, comprising: afirst lens with refractive power; a second lens with positive refractivepower, both an object side and an image side of the second lens on theoptical axis being convex; a third lens with positive refractive power;a fourth lens with refractive power; an image plane; a first positioningelement comprising a holder, wherein the holder is in a hollow shape andopaque, and comprises a cylinder and a basement connected with eachother; the cylinder is configured to accommodate the four lenses, thebasement is between the fourth lens and the image plane; an outerperiphery of the basement is greater than an outer periphery of thecylinder; and a maximum value of the minimum side length of the basementperpendicular to the optical axis is denoted by PhiD; and a secondpositioning element accommodated in the holder and comprising apositioning part and a connecting part, wherein the positioning part isin a hollow shape and directly contacts and accommodates any one of thefour lenses to arrange the four lenses on the optical axis; theconnecting part is disposed outside the positioning part and directlycontacts an inner periphery of the cylinder, and a maximum outerdiameter of the connecting part on the plane perpendicular to theoptical axis is denoted by PhiC; wherein, the optical image capturingsystem has the four lenses with refractive power, a maximum effectivediameter of an image side of the fourth lens is denoted by PhiA4, focallengths of the four lenses are expressed as f1, f2, f3 and f4,respectively, a focal length of the optical image capturing system isdenoted by f, and an entrance pupil diameter of the optical imagecapturing system is denoted by HEP, a distance on the optical axis froman object side of the first lens to the image plane is denoted by HOS, adistance on the optical axis from the object side of the first lens tothe image side of the fourth lens is denoted by InTL, with a point onany one surface of any one of the four lenses which crosses the opticalaxis defined as a first starting point, a length of an outline curvefrom the first starting point to a first coordinate point of verticalheight with a distance from the optical axis to the half entrance pupildiameter on the surface along an outline of the surface is denoted byARE, and the following conditions are satisfied: 1.2≤f/HEP≤10;0.5≤HOS/f≤7; PhiC<PhiD, 0 mm<PhiD≤2.0 mm, and 0.1≤2(ARE/HEP)≤2.0. 21.The optical image capturing system of claim 20, wherein the followingcondition is satisfied: 0<PhiA4/InTL≤1.3.
 22. The optical imagecapturing system of claim 20, wherein a distance on the optical axisbetween the first lens and the second lens is denoted by IN12, adistance on the optical axis between the second lens and the third lensis denoted by IN23, a distance on the optical axis between the thirdlens and the fourth lens is denoted by IN34, and the followingconditions are satisfied: IN23>IN12 and IN23>IN34.
 23. The optical imagecapturing system of claim 20, thicknesses of the second lens, the thirdlens and the fourth lens on the optical axis are respectively expressedas TP2, TP3 and TP4 and the following conditions are satisfied: TP2>TP3and TP2>TP4.
 24. The optical image capturing system of claim 20, whereinthe optical image capturing system has a maximum image height HOI whichis perpendicular to the optical axis on the image plane, and thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0<PhiA4/2HOI≤1.0.
 25. The opticalimage capturing system of claim 20, further comprising an aperture, animage-sensing device and a driving module, wherein the image-sensingdevice is disposed in the image plane, InS is a distance on the opticalaxis from the aperture to the image plane, and the driving module iscoupled with the four lenses to displace the four lenses, and thefollowing condition is satisfied: 0.2≤InS/HOS≤1.1.